Oppression Quotes - page 17

I say...upon this point, what JUDGE BLACKSTONE says; and that is, that the right to resist oppression always exists, but that those who compose the nation at any given time must be left to judge for themselves when oppression has arrived at a pitch to justify the exercise of such right. (William Cobbett)
The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it. View quote
Errico Malatesta
Instead of supplanting you at his altar, we would exhort you to build high his monuments; let them be of the most costly material, of the most cunning workmanship; let their forms be symmetrical, beautiful, and perfect, let their bases be upon solid rocks, and their summits lean against the unchanging blue, overhanging sky, and let them endure forever! But while in the abundance of your wealth, and in the fullness of your just and patriotic devotion, you do all this, we entreat you to despise not the humble offering we this day unveil to view; for while Abraham Lincoln saved for you a country, he delivered us from a bondage, according to Jefferson, one hour of which was worse than ages of the oppression your fathers rose in rebellion to oppose. View quote
Frederick Douglass
Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion - I've worked with my best friends in direct competition. View quote
Diane Sawyer
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. View quote
John Polanyi
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions. View quote
Nawal El Saadawi
. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression. View quote
Bell hooks
A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common lot, that factors like class, race, religion,, and it is both appropriate and necessary that we speak against such oppression. View quote
Bell hooks
All it has experienced, tasted, suffered The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each day in the song Of its rustling foliage, in the friendly Gesture of its gently swaying crown, In the delicate sweet scent of resinous Sap moistening the sleep-glued buds, And the eternal game of lights and Shadows it plays with itself, content. View quote
Hermann Hesse
To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition. (Albert Jay Nock)
Iraq's 'liberation' has become the 'oppression' of Assyrians. View quote
Rosie Malek-Yonan
The fathers of American Democracy had no exaggerated respect for the State, because they were pre-eminently men of reason and common sense. They never, for instance, identified the State with the People. They knew that the State is, by very definition, an instrument of oppression and coercion, and their idea was to make it strong enough to keep order and ward off enemies, and limit it otherwise very strictly. View quote
Dorothy Thompson
We are firmly convinced that the most imperfect republic is a thousand times better than the most enlightened monarchy. In a republic, there are at least brief periods when the people, while continually exploited, is not oppressed; in the monarchies, oppression is constant. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted. View quote
Margaret Sanger
If our society ever opted for Orwell's Big Brother approach, the instrument of choice for oppression would have to be the credit wake. In a totally noncash economy with only a vestigial barter black market, a person's activities could be tracked in real time by monitoring the credit wake of his or her universal card. There were strict laws protecting card privacy but laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove. View quote
Dan Simmons
The Christians committed all sorts of atrocities on the Jews by giving them the label "Killers of Christ”. Hitler is not an exception but a culmination of the 2000-year long oppression of the Jews by the Christians. View quote
Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar
Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression. View quote
Fatos Nano
The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it was a system of institutional oppression, with immense powers of persecution and intolerance. View quote
Tariq Ali
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression. View quote
Tariq Ali
To fight tyranny and oppression by using tyrannical and oppressive means, to combat a single-minded and ruthless fanaticism by becoming equally fanatical and ruthless, will not further the cause of justice or bring about a meaningful democracy. It can only prolong the cycle of violence. (Tariq Ali)
Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come. View quote
Henry Rollins
Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it's able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
Marxism isn't about saying you'll get a perfect world: it's about saying we can get a better world than this one, and it's hard to imagine, no matter how many mistakes we make, that it could be much worse than the mass starvation, war, oppression, and exploitation we have now. View quote
China Miéville
The theologian ... will be engaged where nations, social classes, people struggle to free themselves from domination and oppression by other nations, classes, and people. View quote
Gustavo Gutiérrez