Best 523 quotes in «oppression quotes» category

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

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 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.

I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Resistance to oppression is second nature.