Oppression Quotes - Page 4

• Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Relief, Modern Life, Life Is

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• Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

  Harry Belafonte

  Wall, Wrecks, Made

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• When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

  Florynce Kennedy

  Unnecessary, Individual

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• Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Fear, Men, Religion

  "Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357, 376". Concurring opinion, 1927.

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• Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

  Simone Weil

  Peace, Giving, Doe

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• Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

  Harry Belafonte

  Terrorism, Fascism

  "Belafonte Blasts 'Gestapo' Security". www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2006.

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• America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is sparked by radical ideologues that breed hatred, oppression, and violence against all of their declared enemies.

  Kenny Marchant

  War, America, Hatred

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• We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you secure your own?

  Wei Jingsheng

  Rights, Views, Political

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• During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  Powerful, War, Military

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• To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

  James Madison

  Errors, Media, Humanity

  James Madison, Thomas Jefferson (1826). “Resolutions of Virginia and Kentucky”, p.51

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• There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

  Amir Butler

  Determination, Mean, Self

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• You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

  Learned Hand

  Voice, Doubt, Mind

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• Logic has nothing to do with oppression.

  Gloria Steinem

  Logic

  Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.1066, Open Road Media

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• The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

  Edmund Burke

  Eye, Men, Earth

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.93

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• To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

  John Henrik Clarke

  People, Firsts, Convince

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• I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty is and how easily it can be taken away.

  Ted Cruz

  Children, Taken, Blessing

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• Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.

  Frances Wright

  Vices, Speech, Opinion

  Frances Wright (1829). “Course of Popular Lectures”, p.128

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• Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.

  James K. Polk

  Minorities, Shields, Constitution

  Inaugural Address, avalon.law.yale.edu. March 04, 1845.

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• In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Tolerance, Different, Moral

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• The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Tyrants

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

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• The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor.  It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities.

  Pope Francis

  Biblical, Voice, Giving

  "Pope Tells Philippines Leaders To End Corruption, Hear Cries Of The Poor" by Philip Pullella and Manuel Mogato, www.businessinsider.com. January 15, 2015.

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• Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society.

  Anna Lindh

  Common, Corruption, Democratic

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• We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  White, Soul, Tyranny

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• All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

  Noah Webster

  Christian, Religious, War

  Noah Webster (1832). “History of the United States: To which is Prefixed a Brief Historical Account of Our [English] Ancestors, from the Dispersion at Babel, to Their Migration to America, and of the Conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.339

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• I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.

  Theodore Bikel

  Hate, Voice, Giving

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