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Quotes About Oppression

I was definitely bullied, basically. I was definitely the person that everybody blamed for everything.
~ Angelina Pivarnick
It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.
~ Robert Reich
The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
~ Bernard Berenson
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly.
~ Georg Buchner
Political leaders are sucking blood of the people.
~ Rakhi Sawant
Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.
~ Federica Montseny
Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.
~ Bianca Jagger
What I have experienced is nothing compared to what political prisoners in prisons suffer.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
The miseries suffered by our people come more from the shameless exploitation of our countries.
~ Mobutu Sese Seko
The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called 'Untouchables,' the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression.
~ Shashi Tharoor
Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
~ L. Lionel Kendrick
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.
~ Louis Farrakhan
I don't for a moment believe that women have suffered the same kind of injustices that blacks have - women have never been enslaved. But still, many of the psychological and economic problems are the same.
~ Eleanor Holmes Norton
Many intellectuals feel themselves to be Supermen who are spokesmen for the people. But in my opinion, they're to be pitied. Under Mao's dictatorship, these poor sheep suffered the same fate as everyone else.
~ Gao Xingjian
Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.
~ Jacob Zuma
Many a woman has suffered at the hands of a Paul Morel. There's more than one way of being brutal.
~ Howard Jacobson
Look at black people dying and suffering in South Africa. I ask why. We've dropped bombs on no one, we've harmed no one in the world, yet for some incredible reason, black people have suffered at an extraordinary level all over the world.
~ Ron Dellums
In practice, intersectionality functions as kind of caste system, in which people are judged according to how much their particular caste has suffered throughout history.
~ Bari Weiss
Nobody in the Indian subcontinent has suffered or struggled more than Kashmiris.
~ Shahid Afridi
Whether I realize it or not, I have benefitted from my skin color and my gender - and those of a different gender or sexuality or skin color have suffered because of it.
~ Max Boot
Look at how lucky white people are compared to black people, who have suffered so much just because of their skin color, and then there are native people, who were the first people of this country and have suffered so much just because some newcomers came over and said 'hey this looks like a nice place to set up camp, just hand it over to us.'
~ Severn Cullis-Suzuki
North Korea is not the dictator's country; it's 25 million citizens' country, and they are suffering under the dictator. North Koreans are really nice, kind, pure people. I hate the dictator and the regime, but I love my home country.
~ Lee Hyeon-seo