Quotes about Oppression
Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
— William Faulkner
Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.
— Thomas Jefferson
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.
— Malcolm X
It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.
— John Updike
Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.
— DH Lawrence
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
— DH Lawrence
To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.
— Euripides
If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.
— Gloria Steinem
Men in prison are "civilly dead" and have no claim to any say in policy.
— Mahatma Gandhi