Quotes about Oppression

This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end.

It is this, it is this that oppresses my soul.

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

All over the world, there is someone sitting in a cell because he or she is not allowed freedom of expression.

When people are kept in abject poverty and illiteracy while others grow rich and "develop their personalities" at the former's expense we speak of oppression; when structures and persons that perpetuate powerlessness are replaced by structures that allow people to stand on their own feet and have their own voice, we speak of liberation.2 Both

Instead of an unstoppable force for good and justice in the world and a deadly threat to the Enemy, male-female relationships have been dismantled of power.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

In this world, few people look with the eyes of compassion, and so we are cruel and merciless toward each other. The weak are always oppressed by the strong.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.