Quotes About Oppression

Ten years as a day student in a dark lycée – dreary studies. All fighting spirit vanished under the slow oppression of Greek composition.

Of course civilizations are aggressive, Holmes says, but when they take up arms in order to impose their conception of civility on others, they sacrifice their moral advantage. Organized violence, at bottom, is just another form of oppression.

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

Women have been called queens a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

You white women have always managed to have your cake and eat it, too.

Notre plus grande erreur fut de n'avoir pas planté le pieu au cœur du vampire : la finance.

Corruption and brutality are modeled and expected and rewarded. It becomes normal. And anyone who stands up to it, who tells them it's wrong, is beaten down. Or worse.

Thus human courts acquit the strong, And doom the weak, as therefore wrong.

Jews, gypsies, gays. It became normal and acceptable. No one told them what was happening was wrong. In fact, just the opposite.

We see it when bullies are in charge.

It became okay to stop the swaggering, to cease the bullying that was excused as an appropriate way to treat the populace.

Told them to have more and more babies. Kept them pregnant and poor and ignorant.

Corruption and brutality are modeled and expected and rewarded. It becomes normal. And anyone who stands up to it, who tells them it's wrong, is beaten down. Or worse." Gamache shook his head.

There's no tyrant like a brain.

If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave? If ye do not feel the chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed?

Poor people wait a lot. Welfare, unemployment lines, laundromats, phone booths, emergency rooms, jails, etc.

America made us heroines not wives. We hid our ladyness to save our lives

you have your own story you know about the fears the tears the scar of disbelief you know that the saddest lies are the ones we tell ourselves you know how dangerous it is to be born with breasts you know how dangerous it is to wear dark skin

Let them hate so long as they fear.

Let them hate so long as they fear. (Oderint Dum Metuant)

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

They decreed that rabbis were no longer to function as rabbis, that they could not teach, or decide Jewish questions in rabbinical courts, or be paid by their community. Each of them had to announce in the Yiddish press that he had ceased all rabbinical duties and that no one was to consult him about anything. This was to be the end of hundreds and hundreds of years of religious life.