Oppression Quotes - Page 34

• While there may not be spiritual oppression involved in your battle [against lust], there'll always be opposition. The enemy is constantly near your ear. He doesn't want you to win this fight, and he knows the lies that so often break a man's confidence and his will to win. Expect to hear lies and plenty of them. satan's lie: 'You're the only one dealing with this problem. If anyone ever finds out, you'll be the laughingstock of the church!' The truth: Most men deal with this problem, so no one will laugh.

  Steve Arterburn

  Spiritual, Lying, Fighting

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• Black Revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. We are shaped by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets, places like attica, san quetin, bedford hills, leavenworth, and sing sing. They are turning out thousands of us.

  Assata Shakur

  Ghetto, Moon, Black

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• So, all of us would do well to stop fighting each other for our space at the bottom, because there ain't no more room.

  Cheryl Clarke

  Fighting, Space, Rooms

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• It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to say that the cause (origin) of oppression is to be found in sex itself, in a natural division of the sexes preexisting (or outside of) society.

  Monique Wittig

  Sex, Causes, Would Be

  Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• And the people next door oppress me all night long. I tell them, I work all day, a man's got to have some time to learn to play the tuba. That's oppression, that is. If I'm not under the heel of the oppressor, I don't know who is.

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, Men, Doors

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.11, Random House

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• Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

  Junius

  Comeback, Insult, Political Oppression

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• In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America's ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.

  Aberjhani

  Dream, Kings, Military

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• Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.

  Os Guinness

  Addiction, Alcohol, Negative

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• Only oppression should fear the full exercise of freedom.

  Jose Marti

  Exercise, Should

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• As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression.

  Isabel Paterson

  Government, Being The Best, Minimum

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.69, Transaction Publishers

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• Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow

  Stars, Stripes, Civil War

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1863). “My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington”, p.4

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• We will not forget that Liberty has made her home here, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected...A stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and mans oppression until Liberty enlightens the world.

  Grover Cleveland

  Home, Ignorance, Light

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• The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.

  Huey Newton

  Wise, Suicide, Moving

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.276, Penguin

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• Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Law, Unjust

  Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.10, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Giving primacy to God means having the courage to say ‘no’ to evil, ‘no’ to violence, ‘no’ to oppression, to live a life in service of others and which fosters lawfulness and the common good. When a person discovers God, the true treasure, he abandons a selfish lifestyle and seeks to share with others the charity which comes from God. He who becomes a friend of God, loves his brothers and sisters, commits himself to safeguarding their life and their health, and also to respecting the environment and nature.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Selfish, Mean

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• Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression.

  Daniele Bolelli

  Useless, Openness

  Daniele Bolelli (2013). “Create Your Own Religion: A How-To Book without Instructions”, p.108, Red Wheel Weiser

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• Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students can also get niggerized.

  Florynce Kennedy

  People, Black, Minorities

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• There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Giving Up, People, Black History

  "Three Ways of Meeting Oppression". Essay by Martin Luther King, Jr., taken from MLK's book "Stride Toward Freedom", 1958.

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• In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings; but those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.

  Edmund Burke

  Exercise, Numbers, People

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• By habits of thrift and economy, by way of the industrial school and college, we are coming up. We are crawling up, working up, yea, bursting up-often through oppression, unjust discrimination and prejudice-but through them all we are coming up, and with proper habits, intelligence, and property, there is no power on earth than can permanently stay our progress.

  Booker T. Washington

  School, College, Progress

  Booker T. Washington (2014). “An Autobiography - The Story of My Life and Work”, p.100, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white supremacy, misogyny, and biphobia.

  Vivek Shraya

  Art, White, Addresses

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.

  Frederick Douglass

  Sacrifice, Suffering, Needs

  Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.367, Chicago Review Press

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• This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no way that evil and injustice and oppression and lies can have the last word.

  Desmond Tutu

  Lying, Mean, People

  "No Future Without Forgiveness". Book by Desmond Tutu, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1999.

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• We never pay anyone Dane-geld,
  No matter how trifling the cost;
  For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
  And the nation that plays it is lost!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Games, Play, Cost

  Rudyard Kipling (1994). “The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling”, p.742, Wordsworth Editions

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• For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions - poverty, racism and oppression - for which the Western democracies, including Israel were always ultimately to blame.

  David Horowitz

  Men, Israel, Racism

  David Horowitz (2002). “How to beat the Democrats, and other subversive ideas”, Spence Pub

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