Quotes about Oppression
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If you are born in America with a black skin, you're in prison
— Malcolm X
The question that wins the world is not, how can we get our "morally superior" way enforced in the world? The question that wins the world, and the question that must define the individual and collective life of kingdom-of-God citizens is, how do we take up the cross for the world? How do we best communicate to others their unsurpassable worth before God? How do we serve and wash the feet of the oppressed and despised?
— Gregory Boyd
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
— Victor Hugo
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
And when he saw one of them being mistreated, Moses went to his defense and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian who was oppressing him.
— Acts 7:24
If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
— Gloria Steinem
For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?
— Malcolm X
Still, you lord it over My people and do not allow them to go.
— Exodus 9:17
A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.
— Frank Herbert
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
— John Milton
He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf:
— Psalm 105:14