Best 523 quotes in «oppression quotes» category

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 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 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.

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.

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

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

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

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

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Oppression is as American as apple pie.

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.

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

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.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

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.

standing in line is a form of oppression

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

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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