Quotes About Oppression

Let's consider a series of lessons that lay the groundwork for our discussion of breaking free. I will list them as nine lessons about captivity and freedom. LESSON 1 The people of God can be oppressed by the enemy.

Oppression is hardball. Though the range can vary, oppression is the closest Satan or his demons can get to a believer.

I have observed the misery of My people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. Exodus 3:7

1. God hears the cry of the oppressed. He even hears the cries of those whose oppression is a result of sin and rebellion.

has been my observation that racism and sexism have an uncanny way of showing up together, like two fists on one body. The common denominator was clear as a bell from where I sat. It was superiority. I spoke out specifically to my own Southern Baptist world because I believed

Do not let the oppressed turn away in shame; let the poor and needy praise Your name. Psalm 74:21

Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it.

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis.

On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged.

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

My parents didn't allow me to do all the things the cool kids could do. I was quiet, reserved, and at some points, taken complete advantage of simply because of my sex and gender. For a while, in high school, I was so deep into self-hate.

In a sense, mass incarceration has emerged as a far more extreme form of physical and residential segregation than Jim Crow segregation. Rather than merely shunting people of color to the other side of town, people are locked in literal cages - en masse.

I don't care if it's Saudi Arabia or if it's Israel or any other country. I can't imagine our members of Congress or even the residents back in the day that pushed back against apartheid in Africa not to be able to boycott.

People across metro Detroit face discrimination every day in housing, employment, insurance - the list goes on. It might not always be explicit and in your face, but my residents know when they're being mistreated.

If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.

Usually on films, you get used to kind of being told, 'This is what you're going to wear, this is what you're going to hold, and remember, you're lucky to be here, and shut up.'

There's a long history and a pattern of Black athletes - and Black people, period - being told to shut up and accept whatever it is they're given.

That's violence, terrible violence, to tell a woman to sit down and shut up.

I was just a quiet girlfriend who got beat up and told to sit down and shut up.

I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

When the only two sides fighting are conservative - even if one of them is just conservative in appearance - then everyone loses. And women don't just lose; they're also used as cheap ammunition.

What I'm trying to do with my work is to break open things that are sealed, that are under siege.