Quotes about Oppression
I'm not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.
— Gloria Steinem
The power to make people laugh is also a power, so women have been kept out of comedy.
— Gloria Steinem
Many men are slaves because one is an oppressor; let us hate the oppressor. Now, however, there is amongst an increasing few a tendency to reverse this judgment, and to say, One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves.
— James Allen
He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.
— Samuel Johnson
Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We've been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. I think it's true for women, and I think it's true for people of color. It's historic, and it's unfortunate and has somehow become part of our DNA. But that time has passed.
— Ava DuVernay
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
— George Washington
The Left wants to silence conservative Christians in the media and in the political square.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself.
— Malcolm X
Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
— Thomas Paine
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.
— St. Augustine
It [freedom] is a thing of the spirit. Men must be free to worship, to think, to hold opinions, to speak without fear. They must be free to challenge wrong and oppression with the surety of justice.
— Herbert Hoover