Quotes of: Oppressive Keyword

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Germaine Greer

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

John Jay Chapman

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

Sam Houston

I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed.

Lewis Tappan

Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

Gao Xingjian

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

Rand Paul

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

John C. Calhoun

If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions, the government is absolute, and the people, legally speaking, are slaves.

Lysander Spooner

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

Eugene Jarecki

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

Clarence Darrow

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

James Madison

Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

James K. Polk

God condemns those who oppress and take advantage of others.

Jim George

I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in the air. I could not make the people laugh.

Al Jolson

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

Oliver Tambo

To minimize hatred and oppression, our love roots must be deep and solid.

Auliq Ice

Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed.

Alexander Pope

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

V. S. Naipaul

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.

Carre Otis

Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.

Eleanor Smeal