Oppression Quotes

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.

Hosea Ballou

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

Tacitus

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Simone Weil

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

Learned Hand

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion - I've worked with my best friends in direct competition

Diane Sawyer

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Confucius

Oppression is more easily borne than insult.

Junius

Oppression is but another name for irresponsible power, if history is to be trusted.

William Pinkney

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

Seneca

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Saul Bellow

The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Henry Louis Mencken

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

Joseph Addison

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence.

Martin Luther King Jr