Oppression Quotes - Page 24

• It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be where there is no exploitation and oppression of one person by another; where there is not unemployment, and where a person is not living in fear of losing his job, his home and his bread. Only in such a society personal and any other freedom can exist for real and not on paper.

  Joseph Stalin

  Jobs, Real, Home

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• It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts pretend that we are doing something about violence and oppression. No doubt it is easier to pass a speech code or hate-crimes law and proclaim the streets safer than actually to make the streets safer, but the one must never be confused with the other... Indeed, equating "verbal violence" with physical violence is a treacherous, mischievous business.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Hate, Confused, Law

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• These my two hands / quick to slap my face / before others could slap it.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Hands, Two, Faces

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• He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a more unfortunate wretch than the oppressor; for in the day of adversity nobody is his friend.

  Saadi

  Mean, Adversity, Suffering

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.154, Innovations and Information

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• If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.

  Junot Diaz

  Practice, Serious, Trouble

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• Shortly after news of Zarqawi's death reached the media, al-Qaeda stated its intention to continue its oppression of the Iraqi people.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Media, People, News

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• How shall Integrity face Oppression?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Integrity, Faces

  "The Ordeal of Mansart". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1957.

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• A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are.

  Stephen King

  Running, Minorities, Want

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas - and what I mean is, that in comparison with most other societies, our present-day American society has achieved things which are remarkable: material wealth, greater than for any other nation; a relative freedom from oppression; a relative mobility; a spreading of art, of music, of thought, which is also rather unique.

  Erich Fromm

  Art, Mean, Unique

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.

  Assata Shakur

  Thinking, Cruelty, Exploitation

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• Cubans understand that theirs is a country that provides sanctuary for people fleeing oppression. As a nation, they are very proud of this stance. They don't care how much the U.S. government badgers or attacks them.

  Assata Shakur

  Country, Government, People

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• Feminists have convinced themselves that any difference between men and women is oppression and that women in the United States are an oppressed minority. This is such a lie. American women are the most fortunate class of people who ever lived on the face of the earth.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Lying, Men, Class

  Source: rutherford.org

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• If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.

  Velupillai Prabhakaran

  Fighting, Government, States

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• Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go; dictatorship, not to go; racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].

  Elie Wiesel

  Racism, People, Want

  Source: alainelkanninterviews.com

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• I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

  Erica Jong

  Hate, Thinking, Warfare

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

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• Through its appropriation of "texts of terror" and especially through the application of those texts to the Jews, the Christian religion created the conditions for the oppression of Palestinians.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Christian, Palestinian, Terror

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• Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another. It's happened in the USA between white working class and poor folks on the one hand, and people of color on the other.

  Tim Tebow

  Hands, Color, Class

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• 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

  Warrior, Has Beens

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• Do not be despondent when fighting against the incorporeal enemy, but even in the midst of your afflictions and oppression praise the Lord, Who has found you worthy to suffer for Him, by struggling against the subtlety of the serpent, and to be wounded for Him at every hour; for had you not lived piously, and endeavored to become united to God, the enemy would not have attacked and tormented you.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Struggle, Fighting

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• The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Typical, Cases

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Violence, factory politics - these things simply form some bedrock of what interests me, but I'm a child of the twentieth century. And I don't see reality and its violence, wars, oppression, etc., and fiction as counterposed.

  Rachel Kushner

  Children, War, Reality

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

  Thomas Paine

  Mean, Riches, Consequence

  Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Paine and Jefferson on Liberty”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community.

  Marco Rubio

  Refugee Crisis, Community, Fleeing

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the sinister energy of our country.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Country, Children, Law

  "'Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire'". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 02, 2007.

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• Sometimes films about oppression or suppression can be quite maudlin and quite dour. Sometimes you need a little sugar with the medicine and I think of myself as the little sugar.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Thinking, Medicine, Needs

  "The Sapphires". Interview with Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com.

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