Oppression Poverty Quotes

#1. I am against all kinds of oppression. Poverty, Sexism, racism, terrorism, classicism, imperialism, heterosexism, Cisgenderism, colorism, Ableism, and Nativism. Because it hinder human progression.

Henry Johnson Jr

#2. Literacy is inseparable from opportunity, and opportunity is inseperable from freedom. The freedom promised by literacy is both freedom from - from ignorance, oppression, poverty - and freedom to - to do new things, to make choices, to learn.

Koichiro Matsuura

#3. All things are ready, if our mind be so.

William Shakespeare

#4. The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.

Fidel Castro

#5. Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.

Dan Harmon

#6. When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility.

Auliq Ice

#7. Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom bombs. Children will grow from poverty and filth and oppression and develop honor, integrity, contribute to all mankind.

Chester Himes

#8. Poverty, oppression, grief and depression will increase, if a country does not live according to the rules of God.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.

Arthur Lynch

#10. Knowledge is very important and one of the few things that accompanies us into the next life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#11. Habit is Heaven's own redress:
it takes the place of happiness.

Alexander Pushkin

#12. All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The moralists, censorship and oppression, technology, and now poverty have all tried to destroy her. Only we, the actors and audiences, have kept her alive.

Gene Wolfe

#13. The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.

C.L.R. James

#14. Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Frederick Douglass

#15. Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning in the lives of ordinary people.

Deepak Chopra

#16. We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want.

Nelson Mandela

#17. Trials are used by God to teach you dependence on His grace rather than on your strength.

Jim George

#18. A poem round and perfect as a star.

Alexander Smith

#19. Many people are starting to realize that they work a lot and that working on stuff they believe in (and making things happen) is much more satisfying then just getting a paycheck and waiting to get fired (or die).

Seth Godin

#20. The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

Ray Davies

#21. Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

H. Rap Brown

#22. A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.

Paul Eldridge

#23. God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all - no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.

Ronald J. Sider

#24. Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or otherworldly experiences - not just stories of history, poverty and oppression.

Tananarive Due

#25. There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.

Dalai Lama

#26. I didn't want to go back to sleep. I wanted to talk to him until the earth started revolving around the moon.

Kristen Ashley

#27. Monetary freedom (gold: sound money), like all other economic freedoms, clears the way for energy, intellect and virtue ... Political control weakens individual self-reliance and energy, causes want and poverty and, in the end, breeds tyranny and oppression.

Hans F. Sennholz

#28. For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions - poverty, racism and oppression - for which the Western democracies, including Israel were always ultimately to blame.

David Horowitz

#29. I am happy to have love in my heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart.

Pope Francis

#31. Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

George C. Marshall

#32. Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.

Kurt Vonnegut

#33. I prefer to keep my secrets to myself, to the grave ... and beyond!

Sue Townsend

#34. Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

David Foster Wallace

#35. Poverty is economic oppression.
Tyranny is political oppression.
Oppose those who oppress others.
Support those who liberate others.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#36. War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.

Margaret Sanger

#37. America. The enemy. The rival. The land of jeans and rock and roll, of crime and capitalism, of poverty and oppression. Of home and freedom.

Orson Scott Card

#38. The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.

Shimon Peres

#39. One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.

Thomas Sowell

#40. The most abundant and most precious of things: Thoughts and Dreams, can be found in every corner yet as precious as diamonds.

StridingDream