Quotes about Oppression
it is the sense that something that was alive for a very long time is still alive. Not yet beaten into submission or oblivion by those who kill everything they touch with money.
— Alice Walker
In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.
— Frederick Douglass
Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.
— Albert Einstein
There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.
— Virginia Woolf
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
— Edmund Burke
Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny.
— Edmund Burke
The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
— Edmund Burke
Oh, freedom! Oh, freedom!Oh, freedom over me!And before I'd be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave,And go home to my Lord and be free.
— Anonymous
I believe there is yet a spirit of resistance in this country, which will not submit to be oppressed; but I am sure there is a fund of good sense in this country, which cannot be deceived.
— Anonymous
And he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
— Anonymous
The poor are poor because the rich are rich.
— Anonymous
Go down, Moses,Way down in Egypt land,Tell old Pharaoh,Let my people go.
— Anonymous