Quotes about Oppression
A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.
— Barbara Smith
History proves that the white man is a devil.
— Malcolm X
Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.
— Euripides
Sometimes it feels like the feminist movement never happened.
— Maxine Peake
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.
— Jordan Peterson
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
— Frederick Douglass
There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people.
— Nelson Mandela
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
— Marquis de Sade
In South Africa in 1987, apartheid was still going strong. Some of the most brutal race laws had been relaxed, but they hadn't yet been repealed. There was still a lot of tension.
— John Kani
No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigue, to cracks, which you are the likelier to discover the longer your term.
— Joseph Brodsky
You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation - to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.
— Ariel Sharon
When Christians faced oppression at the hands of Roman imperialists, they did what Jews had done when they faced oppression at the hands of Babylonian imperialists: dreamed of vengeance and enshrined the dream in theology.
— Robert Wright