Quotes About Oppression

Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold.

The truth is we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.

You absolutely feel, as a black actress, that you've got to ride the wave because there's just so few roles. I hate to play that card, but it's the truth. There's not a lot of roles.

I wish there is a world where any one can know the truth and speak there mind with freedom without having to fear for their lives (Rinko, Basara, Vol. 13)

Truth is on the side of the oppressed.

... I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe... Polly Baker

Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands.

Fear has silenced the voice of truth in your world, and this is the anguish with which you struggle.

A hero is one who can never stop fighting for truth no matter the oppression

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery and every truth easily becomes a lie.

When liberators hide their liberty tools, injustice prevails. True leaders intervene by dealing with injustice before it passes puberty.

A human being who trades away individuality for conformity is nothing but a slave.

...oppression is as American as apple pie...

unfeeling tyrants" who cared no more for their subjects' lives "than…so many caterpillars upon an apple tree.

He doesn't just fight it. He frees the world of it. He frees people, see?

In Egypt, in Shushan, in the time of Judah Maccabee, God had intervened to deliver us with a mighty hand and outstretched arm; big deal. When we were sent to the ovens, God had sat with His outstretched thumb up His mighty ass and let us burn.

All the evil in the world derives from the actions of men acting in a mass against other masses of men.

Civil unrest occurs when the feelings of overwhelming powerlessness hit critical mass.

And there's this saying they have about conformist society: The nail that sticks out gets pounded down.

I wanted to tell him that the judge was being insensitive and probably racist.

Women are kind of screwed, in the world," Andrew says.

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