Top Oppression Quotes

Their walking relationship was unnatural, but they were too fearful to seat themselves at a restuarant to share a meal, for they knew that restaurants in our country are the principal target of the ac...

But too often men react to women in positions of power with misogyny, often in sexualized terms. I have heard men in such situations talk about how "I'd like to fuck that bitch and teach her a lesson,...

Oppression Definition

(n.) The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed.

(n.) That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny.

(n.) A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; depression; dullness; lassitude; as, an oppression of spirits; an oppression of the lungs.

(n.) Ravishment; rape.

Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to being to question: Why?

Anger - justifiable anger in the face of oppression and prejudice - should not be mistaken for hatred.

When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must not accept, even for a moment, male notions of what non-violence is. These notions have never condemne...

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

… the major enemy of black survival in America has been and is neither oppression nor exploitation but rather the nihilistic threat—that is, loss of hope and absence of meaning. For as long as hope re...

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay men are expected to educate the heterosexual world. The oppres...

Do not allow the opinions of others to oppress you.

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, po...

God afflicts people for a reason

You should never leave your "house of bread", under any pretence, whether it is oppression, troubles or hardships.

I suggested then that the prize was not given merely as recognition of past achievement, but also as recognition, a more profound recognition, that the nonviolent way, the American Negro's way, was th...

Best to live and love by the maxim that 'silence in the face of evil is evil itself', but when it's evil fighting evil, let evil kill itself.

Narcissists often feign oppression because narcissists always feel entitled.

I am against all kinds of oppression. Poverty, Sexism, racism, terrorism, classicism, imperialism, heterosexism, Cisgenderism, colorism, Ableism, and Nativism. Because it hinder human progression.

The greatest power one human being can exert over others is to control their perceptions of reality, and infringe on the integrity and individuality of their world. This is done in politics, in psycho...

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

In Warsaw, you also remember that you are in a Communist-controlled country, though by all accounts the control is now humane and lenient, judged by what it was and what it is in other satellite count...