Best 523 quotes in «oppression quotes» category

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

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

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

Oppression is as American as apple pie.

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

Oppression makes a poor country.

Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place... They revolted against much more mild oppression.

Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know, hierarchical monotheism has been a real source of a type of oppression.

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

Secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right is confounding the meaning of terms.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

standing in line is a form of oppression

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.

The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman

The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it's becoming an oppressor.

The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

There's something quite magical that can happen when a secret is no longer a secret - or is a shared secret or a common secret. By allowing those boundaries to be porous, certain forms of oppression may be lifted.

There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.

There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination, in the response.

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.

The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.

The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition to tyranny and oppression, very naturally leads them to a contempt and disregard of all authority.

Through its appropriation of "texts of terror" and especially through the application of those texts to the Jews, the Christian religion created the conditions for the oppression of Palestinians.

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs.

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no faith at all.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation.