Best 523 quotes in «oppression quotes» category

If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.

If it doesn't happen, the continuing oppression will be met by more resistance from a less tolerant populace which wants a democratic restoration. And that resistance will only invite further oppression.

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

In an age where there's so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. Where some overzealousness on the part of, you know, a U.S. official is equated with constant and severe repression elsewhere.

In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants for Deliverance.

It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.

If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

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

Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

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

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.

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.

standing in line is a form of oppression

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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