Oppression Quotes

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

All oppression creates a state of war.

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.

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.

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

The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis.

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.

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

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.

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

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

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

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.

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

I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return.

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.

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.

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.

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

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

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression.