Quotes About Oppression

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

The forces of violence and oppression don't care about the innocent.

I have chosen to kneel because I simply cannot stand for the kind of oppression this country is allowing against its own people.

Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country.

The more that I learn about what's going on, it's really hard to ignore the oppression that people are actually going through.

If we're saying there are incidents of oppression in this country, systematically or individually in this country, I don't think saying, 'Well, in country X, Y or Z it's 10 times worse' is making things any better. I think that may be true, but why can't we improve?

Well, when you think about it black American culture evolved over three and a half centuries. Every minute under which they lived under oppression and they adapted to dealing with the fact that those freedoms were going to be cut off. They had to somehow make a life within all of those restriction, and they did.

We have to continue to empower each other... we do not have to live in this marginalisation, we do not have to live in oppression, but our fight to get out of it is not going to be an easy one.

If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression.

I think up to the 1990s, there were a lot of political commentaries in our films... on oppression and women empowerment.

The oppression is like nothing imaginable - I literally believed that Kim Jong-il could read my mind.

Through my school years, I learned more about slavery, anti-black racism, and oppression in the U.S., and my blackness could no longer be an afterthought. I started wearing it proudly, and as my consciousness deepened, so did my love for black folks.

If anything like #MeToo happens, women can come to MNS. We will teach a lesson to accused. Women must raise the voice when they face oppression, not after 10 years.

Because I have seen oppression, I know what it looks like.

Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.

Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.

I know my kids best. I know what morals and values are right for my children. I think we should not have an oppressive state telling us what to do.

Outside of the oppressive nature that the South offered to the black people, black gay people, black gay people who happened to be Christian, who wouldn't want to leave? I couldn't wait to get out of there.

To demand that people find their assigned narrow corridors of culture or ethnicity or gender, expecting people to forevermore stay in that lane, is to limit our human potential. It's oppressive.

Russia isn't only oppressive toward gay people, it is hard on everyone, particularly women.

I don't hold America responsible for the largely oppressive governments in the 22 Arab countries. There are repressive Arab governments that are our allies and there are those that are our nominal enemies. It doesn't make a whole lot of difference to what extent we're involved in propping up those governments.

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

I think a lot of people will be liberated from a lot of oppressive manufacturing jobs, or a lot of service jobs, because they'll be done by computers. There'll be the world's best education available online and free.