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 oppressionvoicepeople No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. Abraham Lincoln utteranceoppressionclients 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 oppressionfatherfirsts Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression. Amanda Lindhout somaliaoppressionfaces Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors. Ameen Rihani oppressionreasonpeople 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 oppressionchoicesessence Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - Andrew Bernstein oppressionindividualstates 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 oppressioncorruptioncommon 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 oppressiontaughtpurpose Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. Anna Sewell crueltyinterfereoppression Where there is oppression, there will be resistance. Assata Shakur oppressionresistance 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 oppressionwarriorhas-beens I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive. Assata Shakur crueltyoppressionthinking What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face? Audre Lorde printoppressionfaces The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries. Audre Lorde oppressiondoemean There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions Audre Lorde hierarchyoppression 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-usoppressionaction 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 oppressionloyalmay Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. Bell Hooks feminismoppressionmovement12345678910»
