Oppression Quotes

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. (Emily Dickinson)
All oppression creates a state of war. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
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. View quote
William Penn
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. View quote
John F. Kennedy
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. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it." View quote
Anna Sewell
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. View quote
Alva Myrdal
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. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
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. View quote
Thomas Paine
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)
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands. View quote
Edmund Burke
If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily. View quote
Stephen Fry
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. View quote
Joseph Addison
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations. View quote
George W. Bush
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. View quote
Sam Houston
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore. View quote
William Cowper
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women. View quote
Richard Dawkins
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. View quote
Luis Buñuel
Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms for use in defense against oppression. View quote
Che Guevara
Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of this order - for "rational” is a mode of thought and action which is geared to reduce ignorance, destruction, brutality, and oppression. (Herbert Marcuse)
Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams-a form which is the style, the language in which the story is told-sexuality turns into a vehicle for the bestsellers of oppression. ... This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and of exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. Sexuality is no exception. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression. View quote
John Locke
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it. View quote
Patrick O'Brian