Quotes about Oppression

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see, the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before.

Women have been the most persecuted people throughout all of recorded history, more than any race or religion.

The slaveholders are terrible for promising to give you this or that, or such and such a privilege, if you will do thus and so, and when the time of fulfillment comes, and one claims the promise, they, forsooth, recollect nothing of the kind; and you are, like as not, taunted with being a liar.

It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

ancient thought forms of oppression and domination have reappeared among us. And we, like generations before us, are called upon to respond.

Overt persecution is a daily threat to millions of Christians around the world. Visit Persecution.org to read about current examples of such cases and pray for our brothers and sisters around the world.

and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. & It is also in the interests of a tyrant to keep his people poor, so that they may not be able to afford the cost of protecting themselves by arms and be so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for rebellion.

How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home].

There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.