Quotes of: Oppression Keyword

[O]ne cannot separate violence from the very exist­ ence of the state (as the apparatus of class domination): from the standpoint of the'subordinated and oppressed, the very existence of a state is a fact of violence (in the same sense in which, for...

In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution

My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties, or long oppressed by any powerful feelings which we must keep to ourselves, for which we can obtain and...

Agnes Grey

Helping others I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.

Caravan of Dreams

The oppressed peoples of the earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to learn how to exercise political intelligence and action. Obviously, colonial arrogance is a long time dying.

Cinema

I walk the city, through its crush of people and its smells: body odour, rotting food, vomit and urine. A cocktail of oppression and freedom.

Cinnamon Rain

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.

Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.

Common Sense

Impression, not oppression determines the real life of a real person.

Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!

America. The enemy. The rival. The land of jeans and rock and roll, of crime and capitalism, of poverty and oppression. Of home and freedom.

Enchantment

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Louis D. Brandeis

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

Insurgent

Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?

Rizal without the Overcoat

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses.

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden.

The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries

To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.

Letters from Burma

An oppressive odor of decay now mingled with the stench of mold and seemed to clutch at the very breath in their lungs.

The Leopard Mask

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

Little Women

To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

October had tremendous possibility. The summer's oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles.

Reclaimed

No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy.

Why We Can't Wait

The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.

Oliver Ellsworth