Oppression Quotes
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When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
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Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.
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Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regime, the terrible oppression of women in Gulf states, and the mass hanging festivals in Iran?
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Africa shares with Asia a common background of colonialism, of exploitation, of discrimination, of oppression. At Bandung, African and Asian States dedicated themselves to the liberation of their two continents from foreign domination and affirmed the right of all nations to develop in their own way, free of any external interference.
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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.
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A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
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If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.
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In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.
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Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
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I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
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A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
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Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.
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The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.
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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.
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The worst government is often 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.
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The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.
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Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.
