Quotes about Oppression
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude
— Aldous Huxley
Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
— Alexander Hamilton
When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
— Jimmy Carter
A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
— Barbara Smith
History proves that the white man is a devil.
— Malcolm X
Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.
— Euripides
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.
— Jordan Peterson
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
— Frederick Douglass
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.
— Nelson Mandela
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
— Marquis de Sade
No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigue, to cracks, which you are the likelier to discover the longer your term.
— Joseph Brodsky
When Christians faced oppression at the hands of Roman imperialists, they did what Jews had done when they faced oppression at the hands of Babylonian imperialists: dreamed of vengeance and enshrined the dream in theology.
— Robert Wright