Oppression Quotes

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
Meridel Le Sueur

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Carl T. Rowan

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
Anna Sewell

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper and render them more important.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Oppression can only survive through silence.

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
Luis Bủuel

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.







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