Quotes about Oppression

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant.

So that's it, he said. Three hundred dollars. I wish somebody would come into this country with a seed that had to be worked everyday from New Year's right on through Christmas. As soon as you niggers are laid-by, trouble starts.

There now. Just look at what your grandpa did to that poor old nigger." "Yes," I said. "Now he can spend day after day marching in parades. If it hadn't been for my grandfather, he'd have to work like whitefolks.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit

This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end.

It is this, it is this that oppresses my soul.

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.