Quotes about Oppression

He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.

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.

You have condemned and murdered the righteous, who did not resist you.

He understood that, contrary to what most people think, total power means total slavery.

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.

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.

We're giving jobs to people who would otherwise be out of work if we weren't exploiting cheap labor.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men.

Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard commencement address on that one.)

Oppression and opposition to Jews is nothing new in world history. The descendants of Abraham were enslaved in Egypt for 400 years, then the ten northern tribes were captured by the Assyrians in 722 BC and the two southern tribes by the Babylonians in 586 BC. (Granted, these captivities were due to the Jews' sins.)

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.