Oppressed Quotes

• Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Religion
  • West
  • South

• Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • World
  • Taken
  • Humanity

• The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Conscience
  • Oppressed
  • Reminds

• Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Oppressed

• People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.

  

  Yuna
  • Free
  • Proud
  • Choice

• When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

  

  S. Ansky
  • Work
  • Literature
  • Jews

• Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Black
  • Me
  • Baby

• The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.

  

  A. R. Bernard
  • Ignorance
  • Oppressed
  • Oppressors

• When reggae was introduced to the world, it was a voice of the oppressed, a music with integrity that you can enjoy holistically. Throughout the years, what has become commercial kind of strayed from the integrity.

  

  Stephen Marley
  • Voice
  • Oppressed
  • Reggae

• The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges...

  

  George Washington
  • America
  • Immigration
  • Welcome

• So I'm very happy if my words can ever inspire or empower someone who considers themselves an oppressed minority. We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Happy
  • Words
  • Inspire

• The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Politics
  • Class
  • Parliament

• I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight.

  

  Ella Baker
  • Culture
  • Leader
  • Slavery

• Because who is more oppressed. Those that seek nothing but entitlements for themselves or those that claim for everything, social security, housing benefit, disability and pay for nothing.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Pay
  • Claim
  • Disability

• The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.

  

  Martin Delany
  • People
  • Justice
  • Rights

• There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Freedom
  • Conscience
  • Oppressed

• 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
  • Responsible
  • Groups
  • Discrimination

• To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.

  

  Umar
  • Forgiving
  • Oppression
  • Oppressed

• The oppressed becomes the oppressor. Look at Russia, it’s heading back to Stalin.

  

  Donald Sultan
  • Russia
  • Stalin
  • Oppressor

• Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Gossip
  • Oppressed

• Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions.

  

  George Washington
  • Revolution
  • Poor
  • Office

• We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Suffering
  • Insanity

• During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Lying
  • Lifetime
  • Hatred

• Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Help
  • Person
  • Oppressed

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