Quotes About Oppression

Party anthems and party things aren't what people need when they're the most oppressed.

I share the concerns around the world about everything from a lack of opportunity to groups of people being oppressed.

If you have a more oppressed Internet, you have a more oppressed society.

It's not enough to just say 'I'm not racist' because you're not a purveyor of overt racism. If you benefit from the system, knowing that people are being oppressed and affected by it, then you are racist.

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression.

I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

Oppression is not limited to people of color, but if you feel guilty that's something you should confront.

What's unique about America is that the country itself was built upon oppression, it's in the very foundation.

I grew up learning firsthand what it was like to flee communism and oppression.

Whether it's microaggressions or blatant racism, it's always been a fight. We've been fighting oppression for 400 years and it will continue to be a fight.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology.

How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a more fluid masculinity.

A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression.

Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves.

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred.

I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.