Quotes About Oppression

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.

We're more Christian than the Pope. And, I mean, that's not our religion. We pray to the Gods of our conquerors... all black and brown people.

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.

Through its appropriation of "texts of terror" and especially through the application of those texts to the Jews, the Christian religion created the conditions for the oppression of Palestinians.

Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.

It's not a weapon, [governments] don't kill, they don't conduct massacres, although massacres have been committed and many people were killed, but they stifle religion, they're afraid probably.

You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion which has breathed upon this earth has degraded woman.

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again.

Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.

Not being allowed to persecute someone else in the name of your religion does NOT equate to religious persecution.

Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.

How you can argue with those who whip, stone and murder people because they wanted to live their life?

When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.

Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.

The white folks like for us to be religious, then they can do what they want to with us.

When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom, ' we make a mockery of human rights.

... the reigns of the kings and queens who are portrayed as kneeling with clasped hands in the windows of churches, were stained by oppression and bloodshed.

The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

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

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.