Quotes of: Oppressive Keyword

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Nelson Mandela

Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.

Fatos Nano

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

Henry Rollins

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

James K. Polk

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

Edwin Markham

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

Clare Boothe Luce

Non Violence and Religion: Both designed to keep the oppressed from murdering their oppressors.

Darnell Lamont Walker

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

James Madison

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx

A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression.

Auliq Ice

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Jimmy Carter

I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.

Richard Dawkins

When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few societies to take a contrary view was the Huichol tribe in Mexico. The Huichol believed that the ...

Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

It is a simple truth that the human mind can face better the most oppressive government, the most rigid restrictions, than the awful prospect of a lawless, frontierless world. Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in a...

The Never-Ending Wrong

In a situation of manipulation, the Left is almost always tempted by a “quick return to power,” forgets the necessity of joining with the oppressed to forge an organization, and strays into an impossible “dialogue” with the dominant elites. I...

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

The breakdown of mummies and daddies was an important part of lesbian relationships in the Bagatelle...For some of us, however, role-playing reflected all the depreciating attitudes toward women which we loathed in straight society. It was the reject...

Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

A vision of cultural homogeneity that seeks to deflect attention away from or even excuse the oppressive, dehumanizing impact of white supremacy on the lives of black people by suggesting black people are racist too indicates that the culture remains...

killing rage: Ending Racism

P69- word is not the privilege of some few persons but the right of everyone

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

P46- As long as the oppressed remain unaware of the causes of their condition, they fatalistically "accept" their exploitation.

Paulo Freire

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce.

Richard Cobden