Oppression Quotes

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.
Hosea Ballou

Important, Opinion, Opinions

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

Religion, Others, Personal

Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America 's leadership and the sacrifices of our military.
Bob Riley

Leadership, America, Away

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
Ingrid Newkirk

Suffering, Bear, Brunt

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.
Ted Cruz

Liberty, Away, Child

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

Political, Coming, Solution

In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore.
Peter Mullan

Religious, Church, Known

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.
Roy Ayers

Time, Long, Soul

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

Another, Against, Group

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

Society, Corruption, Far

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

Countries, Becoming, Systems

Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.
Neil Tennant

Sex, Same, Culture

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

Nation, Illusion, Occupation

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

Against, Appeal, Shield

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

Mind, Doubt, Cannot

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

Freedom, Living, Nation

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

Gay, Able, Until

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

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

Business, Everybody, Cruelty

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

Government, Failure, Black

By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.
Manning Marable

Politics, May, Black

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

War, America, Hatred

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

Love, Freedom, Mean

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, Law, Liberty

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.
Luke Treadaway

Small, Less, Growing

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.
Ali A. Saleh

Justice, May, Moment

You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.
Ariel Dorfman

Forget, Humanity, Free

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

Respect, Nothing, Act

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

Truth, Long, Congress

In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.
Chen Ning Yang

Anger, Emotional, Corruption

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