Quotes of: Oppression Keyword

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Samuel Johnson

Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

Luke Treadaway

A nation will never be vanished by subjugation or oppression, unless they get used to.

M.F. Moonzajer

If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.

Michael K. Williams

When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression.

Maria Alyokhina

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

Emily Saliers

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Given the fact that I have a family and responsibilities, it's the mark of a man to find the courage to do what is right in the face of oppressive evil.

John Rhys-Davies

Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

Lysander Spooner

But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing else than organized systems of plunder and oppression.

Lysander Spooner

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

Theodore Bikel

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

Simon Wiesenthal

Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys.

Camille Paglia

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.

Maximilien Robespierre

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

Ingrid Newkirk

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

H. Rap Brown

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

Henry Clay

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

Bo Gritz

Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

Anna Lindh

Every tax or rate, forcibly taken from an unwilling person, is immoral and oppressive.

Auberon Herbert

If you are blaming the oppressed rather than the oppressor you know that something is wrong.

Adam Snowflake