Quotes about Oppression
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed. Yes, speak up for the poor and helpless, and see that they get justice. (Proverbs 31:8—9, NLT)
— Lisa Bevere
It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part.
— James Madison
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
— Margaret Mead
The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.
— Malcolm X
Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.
— Malcolm X
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase. In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.
— Aldous Huxley
Accompanied by a campaign against the Past; by the closing of museums, the blowing up of historical monuments (luckily most of them had already been destroyed during the Nine Years' War); by the suppression of all books published before A.F. 150.
— Aldous Huxley
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude
— Aldous Huxley
Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?
— Alexander Hamilton
When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
— Jimmy Carter