Oppression Quotes - Page 40

• From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

  Zainab Salbi

  Skills, Faces, Violence

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

  William Shakespeare

  Power, Age, Politics

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1992). “The Tragedy of King Lear”, p.114, Cambridge University Press

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• Anyone who endorses violence, hatred or oppression is not welcome in America and never, ever will be!

  Donald Trump

  America, Hatred, Violence

  Source: time.com

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• Maybe there's less oppression growing up in a small village, and fewer rules, and less danger.

  Luke Treadaway

  Growing Up, Small Villages, Danger

  "Luke Treadaway: Hello aliens, fancy a spliff?". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2011.

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• Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

  Ken Wilber

  Social, Form, Social Power

  Ken Wilber (2003). “Boomeritis: A Novel That Will Set You Free!”, p.193, Shambhala Publications

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• True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Justice, Diversity, Enemy

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• Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it.

  George Steiner

  Training, Technique, Literacy

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• Ireland is becoming like everywhere else, but that's the one I grew up in: the one that's hugely illogical. Rather wonderful, in a way. I never found this oppression of religion and that, but I did enjoy growing up in a culture that didn't need to be rational all of the time.

  Neil Jordan

  Growing Up, Culture, Wonderful

  Source: film.avclub.com

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