Top 100 Oppress'd Quotes
#1. To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.
Mary Astell
#2. To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd.
Homer
#3. Never elated while one man's oppress'd;
Never dejected while another's blessed.
Alexander Pope
#4. Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.
Lucretius
#5. There is an old poor man, ... Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger.
William Shakespeare
#6. Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above
Brightens thy presence like a smile of love,
Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea,
The roughest waves of human destiny
Cheering the good, and to the poor oppress'd
Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest.
Sarah Josepha Hale
#7. Put two men together, and they will find something to argue about. Gather them into groups, and one group will find reason to oppress or attack another.
Brandon Sanderson
#8. We are all entitled to our opinions and religious beliefs, but we are not entitled to make shit up and then use the shit we made up to oppress other people.
Cheryl Strayed
#9. Not only are you what you eat, but you also can be what's eating you. Don't become your problems or let them overtake you.
Anthony Liccione
#10. Bestowing upon men equality of rights is but giving license to the strong to oppress the weak. It begets the grossest inequality of condition.
George Fitzhugh
#11. The story of the many oppressed peoples of the world is rarely recorded by the few who oppress. We are taught that the truth is objective fact as written down by the conquerors.
Dahr Jamail
#12. Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.
Comte De Lautreamont
#13. Houses seem to remember,' said he.
'Some rooms oppress us with a sense of lives that have been lived in them.
Emma Frances Dawson
#14. The more you oppress
the more they distress
and the more they protest
the more you detest.
Aram Seriteratai
#15. Even the most powerful enemies who threaten or oppress God's children will one day fall.
Jim George
#16. Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee
Benjamin Franklin
#17. The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.
Oliver Ellsworth
#18. Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.
Warren Farrell
#19. White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.
Jack London
#20. Religions all have the same timeline ... First the people feel the need to worship something. The sun or the giant corn of ear. That's the first thing. Then the guys say okay, now that we've got the giant corn thing going, how can we use it to oppress women?
Carol Anshaw
#21. ... You can only properly oppress people through a stability bordering on stagnation.
Brian Clevinger
#22. I pray God that we shall never use our physical prowess to oppress the human race, but we will use our strength, physically, morally and otherwise to preserve humanity and civilization.
Marcus Garvey
#23. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.
James Madison
#24. The most important thing is the indigenous people are not vindictive by nature. We are not here to oppress anybody - but to join together and build Bolivia, with justice and equality.
Evo Morales
#25. In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.
Dallas Willard
#26. A new medium is never an addition to an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and positions for them.
Marshall McLuhan
#27. Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom pleasd to bless.
John Dryden
#28. Can satisfy the people, for their object is more righteous than that of the nobles, the latter wishing to oppress, while the former only desire not to be oppressed.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#29. I was traumatised in the medieval Afghan society at Sarana village by the local boys of Omar's Taliban who forced my in-laws to subjugate me for trying to be different. There can be Omars in other religions, too, who oppress women.
Sushmita Banerjee
#30. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All
Desmond Tutu
#31. Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother,
Rudyard Kipling
#32. The feeling of intense repulsion, which had begun to oppress and torture his heart while he was on his way to the old woman, had by now reached such a pitch and had taken such a definite form that he did not know what to do with himself to escape from his wretchedness
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#33. No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.
Anne Bronte
#35. One of my favorite fantasies is that next Sunday not one single woman, in any country of the world, will go to church. If women simply stop giving our time and energy to the institutions that oppress, they would have to cease to do so.
Sonia Johnson
#36. The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
Ben Jonson
#37. religion was created in order to share the mystery and to worship, not to oppress or convert others. The
Paulo Coelho
#38. How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have everything is what defines your real character!
Israelmore Ayivor
#39. Oppress several,
and you have several enemies.
Oppress many,
and you have many enemies.
Oppress numerous,
and you have numerous enemies.
Oppress countless,
and you have countless enemies.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#40. Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people and thereby violated the laws of nature.
Jack Kingston
#41. The trials my father went through were things most young black males have to go through. There was nothing he shielded from me, because it doesn't matter how you grow up, those who oppress will oppress. It's all completely relatable; everyone feels NWA.
O'Shea Jackson Jr.
#42. Freedom arises from the multiplicity of sects, which prevades America and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in any society. For where there is such a variety of sects, there cannot be a majority of any one sect to oppress and persecute the rest.
James Madison
#43. When all the people in the world love one another, then the strong will not overpower the weak, the many will not oppress the few, the wealthy will not mock the poor, the honored will not disdain the humble, and the cunning will not deceive the simple.
Motsi Mabuse
#44. Joy sometimes has a strange effect: it can oppress us almost as much as sorrow.
Alexandre Dumas
#45. Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.
John Ruskin
#46. It made sense. But rich folk, they had a different word for the crapper. They'd call it a "commode" or a "washroom." That way, when someone asked for the crapper, they knew it was a person they needed to oppress.
Brandon Sanderson
#47. I don't want to oppress men or demand to be given rights beyond what's held by them, but neither do I want men to oppress women. As God's creations, we should be held in equal esteem.
Kim Vogel Sawyer
#48. And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Anonymous
#49. God condemns those who oppress and take advantage of others.
Jim George
#50. But who discovered it? Not reason. Reason discovered the struggle for existence, and the law that requires us to oppress all who hinder the satisfaction of our desires. That is the deduction of reason. But loving one's neighbor reason could never discover, because it's irrational.
Leo Tolstoy
#51. The human face shines as it speaks of things
Near itself, thoughts full of dreams.
The human face shines like a dark sky
As it speaks of those things that oppress the living
Robert Bly
#52. We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us.
Heather Marsh
#53. Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice.
George Washington
#54. The oppressed oppress the oppressors. And everyone including the oppressors agrees that this is only fair because the oppressors deserve to be oppressed. After all they are the oppressors.
Daniel Greenfield
#55. Do not take the world too seriously, nor let too many social conventions oppress you.
Randolph Bourne
#56. Do well to impress; don't depress, suppress or oppress anyone. Inspire a soul; never despise!
Israelmore Ayivor
#57. If it is said men oppress women, the husband reacts indigntantly; he feels oppressed: he is; but in fact, it is the masculine code, the society developed by males and in their interest, that has defined the feminine condition in a form that is now for both sexes a source of distress.
Simone De Beauvoir
#58. Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people
they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.
Paulo Freire
#60. In an imperialist racist patriarchal society that supports and condones oppression, it is not surprising that men and women judge their worth, their personal power, by their ability to oppress others.
Bell Hooks
#61. Poverty is economic oppression.
Tyranny is political oppression.
Oppose those who oppress others.
Support those who liberate others.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#62. The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.
James F. Cooper
#63. To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they defend their rights ... is as great a treason as ever a man uttered.
Jonathan Mayhew
#64. When there is no adversary, foe or a government to oppress man, his demon will control him enough to make him inflict harm onto the weakest beings right next to him - like what happened to Joseph. So, don't cry for man, cry instead for God not to leave you fall into the hands of satan.
Ibrahim Ibrahim
#65. It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals.
Jean-Paul Marat
#66. The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.
Pope John Paul II
#67. It's difficult to oppress people who have a sense of identity and unity, he says. Our struggle is about being seen as human beings trying to earn our daily bread.
Pablo Alvarado
#68. A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity on a square yard of space.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#69. After all, it will be hard to oppress a generation who've been brought up on pop-stars with fire coming out of their tits.
Caitlin Moran
#71. They know that it is human nature to take up causes whereby a man may oppress his neighbor, no matter how unjustly ... Hence they have had no trouble in finding men who would preach the damnability and heresy of the new doctrine from the very pulpit ...
Galileo Galilei
#72. Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.
Barack Obama
#73. There can be no peace among men and nations, so long as the strong continues to oppress the weak, so long as injustice is done to other peoples, just so long we will have cause for war, and make a lasting peace an impossibility.
Marcus Garvey
#74. I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.
Charlotte Bronte
#75. The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men , but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity.
Leo Tolstoy
#76. If we have the potential to oppress or slay millions, it's because we also have the potential to liberate and love millions.
Gregory A. Boyd
#77. 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
#78. The majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.
Theodore Roosevelt
#79. When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.
Emma Goldman
#80. Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
Alexandre Dumas
#81. Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one shall possess power.
Mikhail Bakunin
#82. Let not adversity oppress thee: be rather like unto the nail; the farther 'tis hammered, the firmer it holds.
Ivan Panin
#83. While in the course of ages the nucleus of social custom inscribed in law has been subjected to but slight and gradual modifications, the other portion has been largely developed in directions indicated by the interests of the dominant classes, and to the injury of the classes they oppress.
Peter Kropotkin
#84. Hello, my name is Noam and I have the answer to all your problems. It's all the fault of the evil Americans, the bad conservative ones that fill the airwaves with their lies and are in power and want to oppress the world. There. Now give me money so that I can soothsay again and assuage your guilt.
John Ringo
#85. A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.
James Madison
#86. The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse to control, to command, to force, to oppress, and to begin quite humbly to follow the guidance of the larger community on which all life depends.
Thomas Berry
#87. Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture, or kill any creature or living being.
Mahavira
#88. For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#89. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
Cesar Chavez
#90. ... I have never seen mountains before, and they fill me and oppress me so much that I could not sleep; I must keep awake this first night, and see that they don't fall on the earth and overwhelm it. [- Miss Benson to her brother, Thurstan]
Elizabeth Gaskell
#91. I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
Louisa May Alcott
#92. Impression, not oppression determines the real life of a real person.
Israelmore Ayivor
#93. We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and poverty.
Malala Yousafzai
#94. Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress?
J.K. Rowling
#95. You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.
Anonymous
#96. When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.
Billie Jean King
#97. No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.
Frederick The Great
#98. There are those who will oppress you for fear you might learn what it is to be free
Taj Shotwell
#99. Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.
Nelson Mandela
#100. When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.
Vladimir Lenin
