164 Oppression Quotes for You to Enjoy

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed. John Henrik Clarke

You People Oppression First Supposed Oppressed Hold Them Convince

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded. King Solomon

You Justice Oppression Righteousness Country Astounded See Trampled Poor

Poland is not East or West. Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression. Ronald Reagan

Today Oppression East Civilization Poland Doing West Being Center European

When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity. Asma Jahangir

Dignity Oppression Dictatorship Lose Our Out Speaking

Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today. Os Guinness

Positive Today Freedom You Oppression Negative Power Alcohol Addiction Colonial Freed Freedom From Whether Ignored Need

The fact that apartheid has been tied up with white supremacy, capitalist exploitation, and deliberate oppression makes the problem much more complex. Material want is bad enough, but coupled with spiritual poverty, it kills. Steven Biko

Spiritual Oppression Problem Poverty Exploitation White Enough Complex Has-Been Bad Deliberate More Fact Supremacy Coupled Tied Makes Material Been Up Want Apartheid Much Capitalist

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice. Tawakkol Karman

Injustice Peace Oppression Also Does Just Stop Mean Wars

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

People Oppression Psychic Develop Times Hard Hard Times Muscles Need

Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws. Rosa Parks

Time Healing Oppression Jim Jim Crow Ourselves Wounds Horrible Indifference Laws Restriction Crow Attempted Soothe Healing Process Accepting False Up Begins Process Pattern Cut Deeply Set

The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity. Steven Biko

Man Oppression Black Become Own Shadow Bearing Misery Drowning Shell His Timidity Yoke Ox Defeated Slave

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. Tacitus

Nature Man Oppression Resist Desire

You have to start with slavery because those abuses have never been eradicated. You know, people are not living in slums because they voted to. You know, their children are not in jail because they wanted them to. You know, these are the results of a people who have been oppressed and suffer national oppression, you know. Amiri Baraka

You People Oppression National Living Those Slums Results Never Abuse Voted Know Because Eradicated Been Oppressed Jail Children Wanted Them Who Suffer Start Slavery

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

Work Tired Together People Oppression White Kind Got Still Get Trying Get Together Inflict Inflicted Work Together Us

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

People Oppression Black Poverty Country Address Must Causes Itself

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. Sam Houston

Oppression Submission Come Learn Source Texas Any May

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. Anna Sewell

Business Oppression Cruelty Everybody Say See Interfere Now

It's just not funny to disrespect other people's beliefs, backgrounds, cultures, or identities when those are deeply rooted in longstanding oppression. Jokes that punch down on marginalized people require no creativity because they've existed since the beginning of time. It's like telling a knock-knock joke and believing you're Richard Pryor. Franchesca Ramsey

Funny Time You Jokes Creativity People Oppression Joke Beginning Down Disrespect Other Punch Backgrounds Those Telling Since Like Identities Because Existed Cultures Pryor Just Richard Richard Pryor Rooted Require Beliefs Believing Deeply Marginalized

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness. James Q. Wilson

Nature Oppression Liberty Law Name Also Without Becomes Loses

Homophobia, racism, and sexism are all rooted in the same oppression that causes a group of people to internalize the oppression they've experienced and then continue the cycle of abuse. Simply put, hurt people hurt people. Karamo Brown

Hurt Racism People Oppression Group Sexism Put Simply Abuse Causes Continue Same Experienced Then Rooted Cycle Internalize

The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women. Oliver Tambo

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come. Henry Rollins

Time Change Oppression Spring Preparation Come Vigorous Early

I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation. Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

Constitution Humanity Oppression World Humiliation Country Duty Believe Enshrined Must Follow Powerful Most Most Powerful Principle Principles Very America Repression Stands Foundation Serve Conscience Reject

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