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Quotes About Oppression

Mean king Ahab kept on being mean.
~ Karyn Henley
White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.
~ Holly Near
It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
~ James A. Baldwin
When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.
~ James Joyce
While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.
~ Kola Boof
The willing sacrifice of the innocents is the most powerful retort to insolent tyranny that has yet to be conceived by God or man.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth.
~ Malcolm X
The common enemy is the white man.
~ Malcolm X
If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.
~ Muhammad Ali
I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.
~ Nuala O'Faolain
Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Man is always exploited through fear.
~ Rajneesh
If I had my life to live over I would die fighting rather than be a slave again. I want no man's yoke on my shoulders no more.
~ Robert Falls
Easier were it To hurl the rooted mountain from its base, Than force the yoke of slavery upon men Determin'd to be free.
~ Robert Southey
Under capitalism, man oppresses man. But under socialism, it's the other way around.
~ Russ Roberts
In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength.
~ Russell Crowe
When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.
~ Sheila Rowbotham
The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant.
~ Voltaire
Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Hundreds of poor laboring men and women are being thrown into jails and police stations because of their political beliefs. In fact, an attempt is being made to deport an entire political party.
~ Jane Addams
The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.
~ Paulo Freire
Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
~ William Faulkner
It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery