Oppressed Quotes - Page 10

• The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it. It was a force for siding with the oppressed and a rebellion against hierarchical, ancient societies. Now it's institutionalized and all the life has been sucked out of it.

  Ezra Furman

  Revolutionary, Ancient, Rebellion

  "Playground for the Perplexed". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

  Margaret Atwood

  Views, Pyramids, People

  16 Copy quote

• [Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment.

  George Washington

  Country, Land, Promise

  Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison, George Washington (1991). “The real George Washington”, Natl Center for Constitutional

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would like to address the peoples of the world, especially the Arab peoples and the US people. Their silence over the violations against the oppressed Iraqi people who suffered greatly cannot be accepted by any fair-minded and zealous person. Therefore, all must take these violations seriously and express themselves even through peaceful demonstrations, sit-ins and protests. I urge those people to distance themselves from their rulers who support the West and the occupation forces.

  Muqtada al Sadr

  Distance, People, Silence

  "'I'm ready to die' - Moqtada Sadr". Interview with Lebanese Hezbollah TV al-Manar in the Iraqi city of Najaf, news.bbc.co.uk. April 13, 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - believed in progress with at least as much passion as the liberals.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Passion, Class, Progress

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.97, Verso

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• No guarantees come with children's liberation. But neither the promise of great benefits to all nor the prediction of great difficulties ahead can serve as the reason for granting or denying rights to children. Rights will be granted because without them children are incapacitated, oppressed, and abused.

  Richard Farson

  Children, Rights, Promise

  7 Copy quote

• Is this a dagger which I see before me,
  The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
  I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
  Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
  To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
  A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
  Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Memorable, Sight

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Book, Hero, Ideas

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless condition. It is the opium of the people.

  Karl Marx

  Religious, Real, Heart

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1975). “Collected works”

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those of us who are poor and oppressed. By His life He is calling us to give ourselves to others, to sacrifice for those who suffer, to share our lives with our brothers and sisters who are also oppressed. He is calling us to "hunger and thirst after justice" in the same way that we hunger and thirst after food and water: that is, by putting our yearning into practice.

  Cesar Chavez

  Jesus, Brother, Sacrifice

  19 Copy quote

• By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of those in power, they become a necessary part of the system, useful so long as they serve to contain the stirrings and strivings of the oppressed. By making the rules and values of their oppressor their own, they separate themselves from the rest of their group and, temporarily at least, assuage the pain of their stigmatized status.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Pain, Powerful, Long

  Lillian B. Rubin (1991). “Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?”, HarperCollins

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People are always shocked to hear I'm an athlete by profession and even more shocked when they hear I'm a fencer from the United States. I challenge the stereotype that Muslim women are oppressed and that a Muslim can be American by birth. It's amazing how many assumptions people make, but I embrace the opportunity to use this Olympic platform to educate.

  Ibtihaj Muhammad

  Athlete, Opportunity, People

  "The Road to Rio". Interview with Avery Stone, www.yahoo.com. August 3, 2016.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

  Charles Lenox Remond

  People, Suffering, Needs

  4 Copy quote

• I think during the Cold War in America at least, there was a division; there was the Soviet government and there were the oppressed people, who were not represented by this government. That was a massive oversimplification of what the true situation was there. There were certainly many people who were completely and fully alienated from the government.

  Joe Weisberg

  War, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.

  Pharrell Williams

  Art, People, Shakes

  Source: www.esquire.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,' and some have been foolish enough to call it the 'Cradle of Liberty.' If it is the 'Cradle of Liberty,' they have rocked the child to death.

  William Wells Brown

  Children, Home, Land

  William Wells Brown, Paula Garrett, Hollis Robbins (2006). “The Works of William Wells Brown: Using His "strong, Manly Voice"”, p.12, Oxford University Press, USA

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world for the purpose of changing it.

  James H. Cone

  Freedom, Acceptance, Challenges

  70 Copy quote

• Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Love, Money, Men

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 6, p. 161, 1977.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.

  Walter Benjamin

  Emergencies, Tradition, States

  Walter Benjamin, Michael William Jennings (2003). “Selected Writings: 1938-1940”, p.392, Harvard University Press

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which I restored liberty to the republic, which had been oppressed by the tyranny of a faction. For which service the senate, with complimentary resolutions, enrolled me in its order.

  Augustus

  Mean, Army, Order

  "The Deeds of the Divine Augustus". Book by Augustus, 1924.

  177 Copy quote

  Show source

• This oppressor/oppressed cultural Marxist thing is you're an authentic woman and an authentic black even only if you support liberal causes. If you are a woman, if you are a Hispanic, if you are black, and you abide by a value system that believes in limited government and constitutional principles, you are an apostate to the utopian ideals of the left, and you are not protected, and you are pilloried, and that is why I became a conservative because I thought it was fundamentally unfair, fundamentally un-American.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Believe, Government, Support

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Liberals in blue states just think that when they look in the mirror and say to themselves "I'm for the environment, I'm for the children, I'm for the gay people, I'm against war," it pits automatically, and the oppressor/oppressed leftist mindset that anyone that would disagree with them isn't conservative, they're crazy. They're Nazis, they're facists, they're evil.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Children, Crazy, War

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran. We can certainly be on the same front with them.

  Akbar Ganji

  Iran, People, Sides

  Source: www.motherjones.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways:
  1st - When they are neglected in infancy
  
  2nd - When they are overworked by their employer, and are thus rendered incompetent from ignorance to make a good use of high wages when they can procure them.
  
  3rd - When they are paid low wages for their labour.

  Robert Owen

  Ignorance, Class, Use

  "Two Memorials on Behalf of the Working Classes". Book by Robert Owen, 1818.

  48 Copy quote

  Show source

• the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.

  John Calvin

  Spiritual, Joy, Crosses

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.66, Baker Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source