Oppression Quotes - Page 30

• When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.

  Richard Bach

  Dream, Character, Events

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• Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, Feminism, Western Culture

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.26, Routledge

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• This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay her with contempt and oppression.

  Helen H. Gardener

  Giving, Support, Atheism

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• The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence, society would thrash about for alternative incentives-some unreliable, like altruism; some perilous like collective loyalty; some intolerable, like coercion or oppression.

  Arthur Melvin Okun

  Loyalty, Wisdom, Strong

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• Human rights are particularly cherished by the West, which has never acknowledged economic rights. Human rights mean freedom from politcal oppression, tyranny and abuse, while economic oppression, tyranny and abuse are built into the very structures of globalization.

  Jeremy Seabrook

  Mean, Rights, Abuse

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• Although until recently the Church was closely linked to the established order, it is beginning to take a different attitude regarding the exploitation, oppression, and alienation which prevails in Latin America. This has caused concern among the beneficiaries and defenders of capitalist society, who no longer can depend on what used to be - whether consciously or unconsciously - one of their mainstays.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Attitude, Latin, Order

  Gustavo Gutiérrez (1988). “Teología de la liberación”

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• The United States has already passed on as the world's economic leader. Having flouted Thomas Jefferson for too long, America has succumbed to public debt, the 'fore horse for oppression and despotism,' after which 'taxation will follow, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.'

  Ilana Mercer

  Horse, America, Long

  "Economic Apocalypse Now". www.wnd.com. June 03, 2011.

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• I don’t claim to know an over-arching ‘Meaning of Life,’ but I do operate under the understanding that life should not be lived under the pretense that it is simply a test propagated by an invisible, intangible, Creator-God. And it should not be spent identifying with religious traditions and organized groups that, historically, have been at the root of a tremendous amount of oppression and violence.

  David G. McAfee

  Religious, Roots, Creator God

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Aug 06, 2014

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• As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Laughter, Wall, Army

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.48

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• Planted by your care? No! Your oppression planted them in America... nourished by your indulgence? They grew by your neglect of them... As soon as you began to care about them, that care was exercised in sending persons to rule over them... men whose behaviour on many occasions has caused the blood of those sons of liberty to recoil within them.

  Isaac Barre

  Son, Men, Blood

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• This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To hope that it can ever become anything else is the vainest of delusions. They tell you that Anarchy, the dream of social order without government, is a wild fancy. The wildest dream that ever entered the heart of man is the dream that mankind can ever help itself through an appeal to law, or to come to any order that will not result in slavery wherein there is any excuse for government.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Dream, Revenge, Heart

  Eleventh of November 1887: Haymarket Memorial Speech by Voltairine de Cleyre, delivered in Chicago, contentdm.library.uvic.ca. 1901.

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• Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Long, Evil, Accepting

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

  Aldous Huxley

  Love, Technology, Thinking

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• The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of autonomy in regard to capitalism as such.

  Simone Weil

  Giving, Evolution, Form

  Simone Weil (2013). “Oppression and Liberty”, p.13, Routledge

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• Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.

  Margaret Mead

  Groups, Poverty, Discrimination

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”

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• It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.

  Edmund Burke

  Frustration, Men, Thinking

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.381, Penguin

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• An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

  Edmund Burke

  Arms, Rigor, Extremes

  Edmund Burke (2008). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: On Conciliation with America; Security of the Independence of Parliament; on Mr. Fox's East India”, p.323, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Men, Mad

  Edmund Burke, Robert MONTGOMERY (Author of “Satan.”.) (1853). “Edmund Burke: being first principles selected from his writings. With an introductory essay by Robert Montgomery”, p.153

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• Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

  Robin Morgan

  Silence, Firsts, Spills

  Robin Morgan (2001). “The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism”, Washington Square Press

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• If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentance restore it; if thy parent left it, let thy virtues deserve it; so shall thy honor be safer, better and cheaper.

  Francis Quarles

  Parent, Honor, Desire

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• Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Groups, Way, Discrimination

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• all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Struggle, People, Individuality

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• History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

  William Allingham

  Revenge, Hatred, Selfishness

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• Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Christian, Littles, Ideology

  Simone de Beauvoir (1963). “Nature of the second sex”

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• Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom in all its aspects. "Free" is the most vital part of Freemasonry. It means freedom of thought and expression, freedom of spiritual and religious ideals, freedom from oppression, freedom from ignorance, superstition, vice and bigotry, freedom to acquire and possess property, to go and come at pleasure, and to rise or fall according to will of ability.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Religious, Fall

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