Quotes about Oppression

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

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.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

Untrained human nature was not frank and innocent; it was full of the twists and defences of an instinctive guile. And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.

When you drive him hard, the boar will surely turn upon the hunters. If that sovereignty and their freedom cannot be reconciled, which will they take? They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No-body will be argued into slavery.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants

I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force.

It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.