Quotes About Oppression

Many historians have concluded that one reason for the increasingly negative view of the Negro through the later eighteenth century was the need to salve the consciences of those who trafficked in and exploited enslaved men and women. As Grégoire put it, bleakly but bluntly, "People have slandered Negroes, first in order to get the right to enslave them, and then to justify themselves for having enslaved them. . . ."14

the Nazis burned books in public. Liberals suppress opinions that differ from their own through influences they want kept secret. The right wing destroyed books. The left destroys authors. —William Wilde Curringer, Unfinished Memoirs

The small Hitlers are around us every day.

Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell.

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

It is absurd to quote religion or God or religious doctrines to render the people as lowest castes.

This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Some people say that we here have no freedom of religion, ... In reality, the people in that country are the ones who were forced to embrace a religion.

unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

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

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.

True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom.

There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion.

While many Islamic countries pay lip service to the idea of freedom of religion, they don't put up with conversion from Islam to another religion.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.