Quotes:


Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis D. Brandeis

 

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
H. Rap Brown

 

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.
Luis Bunuel

 

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.
Amir Butler

 

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
Jimmy Carter

 

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
Confucius

 

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Emily Dickinson

 

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.
Shirin Ebadi

 

He who allows oppression shares the crime.
Desiderius Erasmus

 

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.
Bram Fischer

 

Shortly after news of Zarqawi's death reached the media, al-Qaeda stated its intention to continue its oppression of the Iraqi people.
Mike Fitzpatrick

 

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.
Bo Gritz

 

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
Fannie Lou Hamer

 

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
Fannie Lou Hamer

 

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
Learned Hand

 

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
Robert A. Heinlein

 

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.
Arthur Henderson

 

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
Bell hooks

 

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

 

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

 

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
Junius

 

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
John F. Kennedy

 

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
Florynce R. Kennedy

 

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.
Ramman Kenoun

 

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.
Anna Lindh

 

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.
Alexander Mackenzie

 

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
James Madison

 

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
James Madison

 

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson Mandela

 

America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.
Kenny Marchant

 

Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.
Thabo Mbeki

 

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.
H. L. Mencken

 

We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
John Stuart Mill

 

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
Kate Millett

 

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
Cherrie Moraga

 

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
Robin Morgan

 

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.
Alva Myrdal

 

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
Vladimir Nabokov

 

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.
Jean O'Leary

 

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.
Harry Oppenheimer

 

The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.
Daniel Ortega

 

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine

 

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
William Penn

 

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
John Charles Polanyi

 

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
James Polk