Oppression Quotes
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My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.
Septima Poinsette Clark
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Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:
His faults lie open to the laws; let them,
Not you, correct him.
William Shakespeare
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When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight.
But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the soil and the sky, of plain speaking. Of The Journey.
Bonnie Greer
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You ask what I have found and far and wide I go,
Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew,
The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay,
And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?
William Butler Yeats
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Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
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As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become victims of the darkness.
William O. Douglas
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We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets, zoos, laboratories, and circuses, and through our language. That we refer to meat eating rather than to corpse eating is a central example of how our language transmits the dominant culture's approval of this activity.
Carol J. Adams
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Feminism is the theory of gender oppression. To assume automatically that this makes it the theory of sexual oppression is to fail to distinguish between gender, on the one hand, and erotic desire, on the other.
Gayle Rubin
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All oppression creates a state of war.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.
Hillary Clinton
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Oppression makes a poor country.
William Penn
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My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their stations, to prevent it in others.
George Washington
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Religion is a thing of the past, the Party said, an instrument of oppression that keeps the common man in bondage.
Camilla Gibb
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If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.
Miriam Makeba
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There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.
Anne Nicol Gaylor
