Oppression Quotes

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

Ernest Hemingway
- Modern
- Oppression
- Liquor
Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or in the hospital after being brutally beaten or worse.

Yousef Munayyer

English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.

Vaclav Havel
Of course, I could never suggest that only poor people are misogynistic; too many rich folk are just as hateful of women as any poor person might be. I don't know if social problems are only circular; perhaps other geometric metaphors might better describe the triangular effects of social vulnerability, political oppression, and racial disadvantage. I think you're right - we've got to focus on both analyses and solutions. And sometimes, an adequate analysis goes far along in suggesting a suitable solution.

Michael Eric Dyson
- Political
- Problem
- Focus
What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't end with the women, or the pregnant women. It goes on up the line to the executive who has his bag searched in the airport.

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

Erica Jong
- Women
- Religion
- Force
Resistance to oppression is second nature.

Seneca the Younger
- Resistance
- Oppression
It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race from whatever burden or oppression they may unjustly labor under.

Benjamin Banneker
- May
- Power
- Nature