Quotes about Oppression
‘Lord,’ I answered, ‘they know very well that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in You.
— Acts 22:19
In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.
— 2 Corinthians 11:20
He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.
— Hebrews 11:25
They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.
— Hebrews 11:37
You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.
— James 5:6
He understood that, contrary to what most people think, total power means total slavery.
— Paulo Coelho
What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.
— St. Augustine
There is great danger that modern culture, progressing in its anti-supernaturalistic course, will be stirred against the steadfastness of believers and attempt to accomplish by oppression what it cannot obtain by reasoning and argument.
— Herman Bavinck
We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.
— Lily Tomlin
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
— Victor Hugo
Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.
— Lady Gaga
Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard commencement address on that one.)
— Peter Kreeft