Quotes about Oppression

Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave.

Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.

...oppression is as American as apple pie...

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppressors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway.

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization

The essence of our struggle is that men shall be free.