Quotes about Oppression
In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
- Desmond Tutu
The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
- Thomas Jefferson
Resistance to tyranny is service to God.
- James Madison
Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is on the side of the oppressed.
- Desmond Tutu
Resisting tyranny is obeying God.
- Thomas Jefferson
We felt like the Taliban saw us as little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He wouldn't have made us all different.
- Malala Yousafzai
Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
- Frederick Douglass
In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.
- Malcolm X
The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people
- Martin Luther King, Jr.