Mental Oppression Quotes

#1. Self-confidence and self-courage are your greatest strengths.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

Hugh Hefner

#3. I hope some of your DNA transferred to me.

Patricia Arquette

#4. I never worry about the problem. I worry about the solution.

Shaquille O'Neal

#5. He filled a bowl with cereal that looked like twigs a squirrel had pooped out.

David Baldacci

#6. Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.

Albert Einstein

#7. The dead don't die. They look on and help.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. Do you decide to observe? Or do you merely observe?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#9. We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been the legacy of those of us who are labelled with mental illness. We are refusing to reduce human beings to illnesses.

Patricia Deegan

#10. What the ever-loving knuckle fuck?

Kristen Callihan

#11. Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#12. Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.

Oprah Winfrey