Quotes About Oppression

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

God is on the side of the oppressed.

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

As long as I continue to breathe, as long as there's injustice in this world, I will use the voice that God has given me to speak against it.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

We felt like the Taliban saw us as little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He wouldn't have made us all different.

What Martin Luther King is doing is disarming the black people of America of their God-given right and of their natural right.

Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, Against each piled injustice.

[God brought African slaves to America] so that their descendants would know freedom.

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

God forbid Donald Trump gets elected president; think about how many people are going to get f**ked over or how much harder we're going to have to fight for equality.

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

In the name of God, they stole her time and her freedom, putting shackles on her heart. They preached about God's kindness, but preached twice as much about his wrath and intolerance.

All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.

While police officers who blatantly shaft the common people believe that they are God, they are the Devil to those that they wrong.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

Each time a new war is disclosed in the name of the fight of the good against evil, those who are killed are all poor. It's always the same story repeating once and again and again.