Quotes about Oppression
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
Freedom of speech wasn't won by being nice, it has been won by struggle with religion.
— David Starkey
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
— Frank Herbert
A good bureaucracy is the best tool of oppression ever invented.
— Frank Herbert
It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings…
— Frank Herbert
It's an old, old trick of autocratic rule. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.
— Frank Herbert
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
— Frank Herbert