Quotes about Oppression
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
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.
— Margaret Atwood
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
— Victor Hugo
Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."
— Martin Luther King, Jr.