Top 24 Feeling Oppressed Quotes
#1. My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.
George Washington
#2. The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then.
Curtis Armstrong
#3. Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#4. He kissed my tears away and whispered sweet words into my ears. Words that he was too afraid to say out loud. He told me I was beautiful. That I was perfect in every way. And that, unconditionally, I was his.
A. Zavarelli
#5. There are very few jobs where you're held up to public scrutiny.
Michael Keaton
#6. What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#7. I looked at the transprent yellow liquid in the glass. I tasted it and tasted fermentation. In other words I tasted life on Earth. For everything that lives here ferments, ages, becomes diseased. But as things made their decline from ripeness they could taste wonderful, I realised
Matt Haig
#8. Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.
Ralph Nader
#9. Stop calling me Car, alright? I'm not an automobile.
R.J. Lewis
#10. No one is going to abduct me, Rae." "That's what all abductees say.
Lisa Lutz
#11. In the old days, Zen was not really practiced so much in a monastery. The Zen Master usually lived up on a top of the mountain or the hill or in the forest or sometimes in the village.
Frederick Lenz
#12. My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.
Ian Holloway
#13. Why do I love writing? I can be who I want, do what I want, hurt who I want, and make the world over, just the way I'd love to have it.
Mark Rubinstein
#14. Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana ... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.
Kobe Bryant
#15. We have successful, strong-willed, independent women who stand up for conservative, traditional values. Women are leading this movement because they've been raised to be unafraid....I didn't grow up feeling oppressed. I didn't grow up feeling like a victim.
S. E. Cupp
#16. We lay down, and the pain let up.
We embraced, and the pain let go:
no more scalding regrets,
no scorching remorse
that oppressed the soul,
that weighted like a stone on the heart.
You, on top of me, heavy, immense,
and I, feeling so light.
Vera Pavlova
#17. Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence.
Georg Ebers
#18. It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.
Anthony Doerr
#19. Her heart swelled with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom. It beat with odd little jerks; her hands were cold, and a feeling of disaster oppressed her.
Margaret Mitchell
#21. I do not like to work and have no trade but i do like to eat, so this is basic, the basic training of slaves to fear ...
Charles Bukowski
#22. My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.
Septima Poinsette Clark
#23. You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.
Frederick Franck
#24. To cut 1930s jobless, FDR taxed corps and rich. Govt used money to hire many millions. Worked then; would now again. Why no debate on that?
Richard D. Wolff
