Quotes About Oppression

It wasn't only our country they occupied, Irene explained to Amir Shah. They occupied our minds.

When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.

How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home].

You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish. You were ground in the very mill of the conventional.

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to your own?

When something so unjust as the black list happened, [Dalton Trumbo] would come to life in a certain way.

Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.

Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

Blue for everyone but it was not for freedom.Just like you, like me

Politics is a game played by the rich with the lives of the poor.

Oppressors specialise in rasing wolves from amonst the sheep then together with the wolves devour the sheep

A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world…jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties..

Striking a balance in life is tough, but trying to strike balance and remain fair in the face of imbalance and oppression is even tougher.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves.

Nations grown corrupt Love bondage more than liberty; Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

The real or supposed necessity of treating the Negroes with rigor gradually brings a numbness upon the heart and renders those who are engaged in it too indifferent to the sufferings of their fellow creatures.

The signs of sin entering conflict appear when we want to be God, when we assume superiority, when we oppress, when we try to lord it over others, when we refuse to listen, when we discount and exclude others, when we hold back deep feelings, when we avoid, when we hate, and when we project blame with no self-reflection.

Throughout the history of the world, government leaders have chosen to imprison persons who opposed their rule. That bears repeating. Throughout the history of the world, government leaders have chosen to imprison persons who opposed their rule.

Third, though oppression to the level of 'being thrown in jail' for one's Christian faith may not yet be apparent in the United States, history confirms that religious oppression in any given nation can be just the passage of a few laws away. Within six years of Adolph Hitler's selection as Germany's leader, the nation was imprisoning and killing its own people.

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.