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Quotes About Oppresses

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
~ Wendell Phillips
There's a certain slant of light, On winter afternoons, That oppresses, like the weight Of cathedral tunes. Heavenly hurt it gives us;
~ Emily Dickinson
The difference between the genius of the British constitution which protects and governs North America, and that of the mercantile company which oppresses and domineers in the East Indies, cannot perhaps be better illustrated than by the different state of those countries.
~ Adam Smith
I let her know she's an apologist for the patriarchy and complicit in a system that oppresses all women she says human beings are complex I tell her not to patronize me
~ Bernardine Evaristo
Winter is cruel to bear; I fear snow and chills. Let spring, thrice-desired to me, be here all year round, when neither frost nor sun oppresses us. In spring everything burgeons, everything pleasant blossoms in spring, and night and day are equal for humans.
~ BION
Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.
~ Chuck D
Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca