Quotes about Oppression
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
No one is free when others are oppressed.
- Anonymous
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.Come now, and let us reason together… though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.
- Anonymous
Oh, Paddy, dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round? The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground! No more St. Patrick's Day we'll keep, his colour can't be seen, For there's a cruel law agin' the Wearin' o' the green.
- Anonymous
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate.
- Anonymous
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
- Anonymous
What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor?
- Anonymous