Quotes About Opression

#1. If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.

Cory Doctorow

#2. Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression

Harun Yahya

#3. I drop his hand like a hot potato and scowl deeply. "You're such a vagina-tease.

Elle Kennedy

#4. A soul must gain wisdom by gathering information in whatever way works best. It is impossible to force wisdom on another, because each person has a choice to determine how and if it will be received.

Molly Friedenfeld

#5. Mankind being originally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstance; the distinctions of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be accounted for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice.

Thomas Paine

#6. The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

Friedrich Engels

#7. Old family motto: "The best revenge is revenge.

Anne McCaffrey

#8. To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

Maximilien De Robespierre

#9. Nurse Leatheran has been giving me valuable information about the various members of the expedition. Incidentally I have learnt a good deal - about the victim. And the victim, mademoiselle, is very often the clue to the mystery.

Agatha Christie

#10. Islam has always been a force that dispels tyrants and tyranny, opression and exploitaion. Islam has always been a force that militates for justice.

Louis Farrakhan

#11. If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

Mary Astell

#12. We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#14. I'm not built for a high-maintenance lover. I've always been the brat in a relationship. Now the tables have been turned on me, and I'm not handling it well." "Corey,

Darien Cox

#15. That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you so bad you forgot who you were and couldn't think it up. And though she and others lived through and got over it, she could never let it happen to her own.

Toni Morrison

#16. Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

#17. The people who ask for advice are the ones who already know what they should do.

Deb Caletti

#18. And all I want to do was go back to sleep. To be warm. But I knew I had to get up and face a world that didn't give a shit. He

Pierce Brown

#19. The name of the regime where media is on the side of the government is undoubtedly fascism, a regime of the sick minds where freedoms are drowned in the cold waters of oppressions!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. Letter writing allows us to be alone yet connected. We need a certain amount of solitude in order to have true ideas to communicate. But few of us desire solitude all the time ... Yet solitude is what makes us contemplative and receptive, more aware of life's gifts and our own special blessings.

Alexandra Stoddard

#21. You only get inspired, if you are willing to.

Krishna Sagar

#22. A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation.

John Owen

#23. Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Dodie Smith