Quotes about Oppression
Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
- Dennis Prager
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
- Audre Lorde
We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.
- Oscar Romero
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
- Winston Churchill
As long as anyone anywhere is being made to feel less human, our very definition of humanity is at stake, and we are all vulnerable.
- Kerry Washington
When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.
- Desmond Tutu
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
- James Madison
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
- Thomas Jefferson
Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.
- Desmond Tutu
What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.
- Martin Luther
Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun, and they have not.
- Hilaire Belloc