Quotes about Oppression

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.

Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun, and they have not.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.