Oppression Quotes - Page 10

• Marriage can be a religious thing. It can also be a secular thing. And guess what? Not everyone in the world is of the same religion. Preventing gay people from getting married is not an expression of religious freedom. It's an expression of religious oppression.

  Hank Green

  Religious, Gay, Expression

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• I know she [Hillary Clinton] comes out of a legacy with her husband in which the Democratic Party did more, it seems to me, to subjugate blacks to the dynamics of oppression, poverty. The mass incarceration state.

  Henry Giroux

  Husband, Party, Legacy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Certainly here in the U.S., we've had fundamentalist movements that have taken very critical and hostile attitudes toward immigration and the assimilation of immigrants into our society and culture. So these tendencies are fairly universal. The problem is what if they get out of hand and become the dominant factor in a society, which can only lead to the oppression of minorities or even to war with neighboring societies with differing cultures. That's why it seems to me it's important to try to keep these tendencies toward extremism under control.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Attitude, War, Taken

  Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. 2006.

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• An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.

  Lerone Bennett, Jr.

  Revolutionary, Educator, Oppressors

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• Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is not enough to make you human. People who are full of hate and anger against their oppressors or who only see Us versus Them can make a rebellion but not a revolution. The oppressed internalize the values of the oppressor. Therefore, any group that achieves power, no matter how oppressed, is not going to act differently from their oppressors as long as they have not confronted the values that they have internalized and consciously adopted different values.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Mother, Hate, Long

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• That's how oppression works. Thousands of otherwise decent people are persuaded to go along with an unfair system because changing it seems like too much bother. The appropriate response when somebody demands a change in that unfair system is to listen, rather than turn away or yell, as a child might, that it's not your fault. Of course it isn't your fault. I'm sure you're lovely. That doesn't mean you don't have a responsibility to do something about it.

  Laurie Penny

  Children, Mean, Responsibility

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• Half the Sky:  Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide

  Gary Haugen

  Opportunity, Sky, Half

  Gary A. Haugen, Victor Boutros (2015). “The Locust Effect: Why the End of Poverty Requires the End of Violence”, p.295, Oxford University Press

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• In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to poke a finger in the throat of theocracy and to let it be known that people shouldn't tolerate this anymore.

  Peter Mullan

  Religious, People, Catholic

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• It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice

  Edward Coke

  Justice, Done, Worst

  Edward Coke (1817). “The Second Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England Containing the Exposition of Many Ancient and Other Statutes”, p.48, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do that - but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.

  Clarence Darrow

  Odds, Law, Battle

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.497, University of Chicago Press

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• Maybe I'm the badass lady who rids Mexico of drugs, of oppression and illiteracy.

  Andrea Suarez Paz

  Badass, Drug, Mexico

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

  Audre Lorde

  Mean, Doe, Boundaries

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.70, Crossing Press

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• Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression!

  Pope Francis

  Violence, Planning, Armour

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• Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness.

  Desmond Tutu

  Easter, Hate, Justice

  Desmond Tutu (1982). “Crying in the wilderness: the struggle for justice in South Africa”, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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• Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Art, Long, Community

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.328, Library of America

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• Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

  Assata Shakur

  Moon, Black, Revolutionary

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.67, Zed Books

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• It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not to engage in physical resistance, armed resistance to oppression, is to serve the interests of the oppressor; no more, no less. There are no exceptions to the rule, no easy out.

  Assata Shakur

  Mean, Exception To The Rule, Resistance

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• Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class of women. It does not privilege women over men. It has the power to transform meaningfully all our lives

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Men, Race

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.45, Routledge

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• You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Tired, Iron, Feet

  Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Speech at MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. December 5, 1955.

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• Competition is merely the absence of oppression.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Competition, Absence, Economic Competition

  "Economic Harmonies". Book by Frédéric Bastiat, 1850.

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• If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.

  Thomas Paine

  Law, Support, Gold

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.167, Yale University Press

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• Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have been displaced by force, with effective projects and new approaches in order to protect their dignity, to improve the quality of their life and to face the challenges that are emerging from modern forms of persecution, oppression and slavery.

  Pope Francis

  Reality, Order, Leader

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• Choosing our own aims and seeking to bring them to fruition creates a sense of vitality and motivation in life. The only things that derail our efforts are fear and oppression.

  Brendon Burchard

  Motivation, Effort, Vitality

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• The fact that 'Scrubs' is so popular in Israel is very important to me. I feel like I'm helping to cancel out the thousands of years of oppression the Jewish people have suffered.

  Zach Braff

  Israel, Years, People

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• Wherever I found resistance to oppression, whether in Africa, in Latin America, certainly here in America in the South, I joined that resistance. I took part in the labor movement, in social movements, in the church community. I felt that it was the honorable thing to do and still do.

  Harry Belafonte

  Latin, America, Community

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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