Oppressed Quotes - Page 16

• I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.

  Robin Morgan

  Hate, Men, Radical Feminism

  Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.171, Open Road Media

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• President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people.

  Mario Diaz-Balart

  Betrayal, America, People

  "Florida's Cuban Americans Rejoice At U.S. Policy Overhaul" by Zachary Fagenson and David Adams, www.businessinsider.com. December 17, 2014.

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• Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

  Edith Wharton

  Art, Freedom, Thinking

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• My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

  Robin Morgan

  Freedom, Agony, White

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, p.183, Open Road Media

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• Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.

  Robin Morgan

  Men, Yellow, White

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• Everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Jon Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority? Yeah.

  Rick Sanchez

  Running, Country, Mean

  "Rick Sanchez fired by CNN after comments about Jews and Jon Stewart" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Animal, Race

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1857). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.25

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• Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man.

  Ronald Reagan

  Giving Up, Fighting, Men

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• Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people, and humanity at peace. For it is now our task to tend and preserve, through the darkest and coldest nights, that "sacred fire of liberty" that President Washington spoke of two centuries ago, a fire that tonight remains a beacon to all oppressed of the world, shining forth from this kindly, pleasant, greening land we call America.

  Ronald Reagan

  Night, Men, Fire

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

  George Ripley

  Men, Intellectual, Suffering

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• The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Revenge, Fate, Destiny

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1894). “The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier: Life and letters”

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• Being brought up in a Christian home and still identifying as Christian, I get pretty annoyed with the Christian lobbies around the world who say gay marriage destroys the family and all that kind of rubbish. They claim to follow someone who always stood up for the oppressed and marginalised.

  David Pocock

  Christian, Home, Gay

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• [About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole.... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.

  I. L. Peretz

  Heart, Ideas, Humanitarian

  Jewish Affairs (Johannesburg), p. 28, June 1952.

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• I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes. I oppose both movements when either says our sex is THE oppressed sex, therefore, "we deserve rights." That's not gender liberation but gender entitlement. Ultimately, I am in favor of neither a women's movement nor a men's movement but a gender transition movement.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.

  Barack Obama

  Change, Rights, People

  Barack Obama's remarks at the Summit on Countering Violent Extremism at the State Department in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. February 19, 2015.

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• A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members.

  Silvia Tennenbaum

  Freedom, Society, Members

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• Dare I speak ,to oppressed and opressor in the same voice? Dare I speak to you in a language that will move beyond the boundaries of domination- a language, that will not bind you, fence you in, or hold you? Language is also a place of struggle. The oppressed struggle in language to recover ourselves, to reconcile, to reunite, to renew. Our words are not without meaning, they are an action, a resistance. Language is also a place of struggle.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Moving, Voice

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.160, Routledge

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• Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely lower grade, say, in their ignorance,that he acted "on the principle of revenge." They do not know the man. They must enlarge themselves to conceive of him.... They have got to conceive of a man of faith and of religious principle, and not a politician or an Indian; of a man who did not wait till he was personally interfered with or thwarted in some harmless business before he gave his life to the cause of the oppressed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Religious, Revenge, Ignorance

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.47, David M Gross

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• Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest.

  George MacDonald

  Jesus, Heart, Giving

  George MacDonald (1893). “The Poetical Works of George MacDonald (Volumes I and II)”, p.333, Library of Alexandria

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• For a political movement to not understand that sexuality is a profound component of both how people are oppressed and how people dream, is not to recognize the reality of political power and where it's centered.

  Amber Hollibaugh

  Dream, Reality, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or sub oppressors. The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradiction of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them to be men is to be oppressors

  Paulo Freire

  Struggle, Men, Existential

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.45, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Merit, Tasks, Should

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• As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Writing, Men, Two

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• There were many Americans in the Revolutionary era who believed that they, like the children of Israel, were oppressed by their colonial rulers, and they looked to God for deliverance from the tyranny of their pharaoh, George III.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Children, Israel, Pharaohs

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that the religious community is being oppressed and persecuted is something that every single person in the world who has any religious faith and religious feeling for - for people who have faith should speak up.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, People, Community

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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