Oppression Quotations | Page 2

With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

The idea that you work in the house of the master is almost in itself its own opportunity to do some mischief and make a difference, but when you are in that place and you help perpetuate the master's policy that perpetuates oppression and pain for many others, then something has to be said about it, ... And the master in this instance, of course, was the president of the United States.

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppressions, and there prevail justice and Faith in Allah; but if they cease, let there be no hostility except to those who practice oppression

It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice

The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and interests, the more frequently will a majority be found of the same party; . . . the more easily will they concert and execute their plans of oppression.

Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression.

That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.

standing in line is a form of oppression

If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.

The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it’s becoming an oppressor,

Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.

Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.

Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation.

All oppression creates a state of war.

The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.

Oppression is allowed to survive because people don't like to talk about it or about acts like what happened. We're hoping to counter some of that with the help of this banner.

Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

Women are a colonized people.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.

A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.

Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are equally justifiable in applying to it the readiest and the surest means of oppression.

How shall Integrity face Oppression?

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken.

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my prison.

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

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

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new.

Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression.

Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own oppression, and to the perpetuation of wealth and power in the individuals and their families selected for the trust.

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations.

Oppression makes a poor country.