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Quotes About Oppression

The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.
~ Leonard Cohen
We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.
~ Muhammad Ali
Who is the descendant of the slavemasters a descendant of slaves to fight other people in thier own country?
~ Muhammad Ali
All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them.
~ Voltaire
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant – because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use you to harm others.
~ A Gentlemen
Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.
~ Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
The wheels of history are lubricated with human blood.
~ Fuad Alakbarov
Slavery was never abolished.It was just renamed.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND TELL EVERYONEABOUT...THE REAL WAR ON WOMENON YAZIDI GIRLS & WOMEN
~ Widad Akreyi
The worst kind of tyrant is one that is righteously wrong
~ rassool jibraeel snyman
In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
I will follow anyone...And remind everyone...Of enslaved Yazidi women...Raped...And forced...To donate blood to ISIS men...
~ Widad Akreyi
P40- this violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.
~ Paulo Freire
The weak against the strong Is always in the wrong.
~ Ivan Krylov
What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the cruelty the injustice the treachery the murderous hand of man.
~ William Ellery Channing
Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.
~ Ibn Taymiyyah
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
~ Victor Hugo
Knowledge without wisdom is adequate for the powerful, but wisdom is essential to the survival of the subordinate
~ Patricia Hill Collins
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
~ Abraham Lincoln
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.
~ Desmond Tutu
Considering the natural lust for power so inherent in man, I fear the thirst of power will prevail to oppress the people.
~ George Mason
Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression
~ Harun Yahya