Quotes by Oppression Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint. Abraham Lincoln oppression voice people No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. Abraham Lincoln utterance oppression clients When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about. Alan King oppression father firsts Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression. Amanda Lindhout somalia oppression faces Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors. Ameen Rihani oppression reason people The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice. Andrea Dworkin oppression choices essence Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - Andrew Bernstein oppression individual states Oppression breeds the power to oppose it. Andrew Solomon oppression Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society. Anna Lindh oppression corruption common Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which capitalism had taught me, for its own purposes. Anna Louise Strong oppression taught purpose Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. Anna Sewell cruelty interfere oppression Where there is oppression, there will be resistance. Assata Shakur oppression resistance Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more. Assata Shakur oppression warrior has-beens I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive. Assata Shakur cruelty oppression thinking What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face? Audre Lorde print oppression faces The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries. Audre Lorde oppression doe mean There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions Audre Lorde hierarchy oppression If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough. Audre Lorde taught-us oppression action The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally defined, and leads us to accept many facets of our own oppression as women. Audre Lorde oppression loyal may Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. Bell Hooks feminism oppression movement 12345678910»
