Oppression Quotes

Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don't be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don't let it use you.

Dave McKean
- Strong
- Pride
- Foundation
Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.

Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
- Light
- Win
- Oppression

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

Rita Mae Brown
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Time
- Love
- Nonviolence
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
A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
It's fun, I suppose. It may be that the story of Hanukkah has appeal, that's it's about not assimilating, about fighting oppression. But it's probably because they grew up with it.

Ed Case
- Fighting
- Story
- Appeal
Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that undermine our best attempts at organizing ourselves into social units.

Paul Di Filippo
- Fiction
- Units
- Organizing