Quotes About Resistance To Oppression

#1. The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.

Albert Camus

#2. Resistance to oppression is second nature.

Seneca The Younger

#3. When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight.
But to me it contains all of the history of oppression and resistance, of being close to the soil and the sky, of plain speaking. Of The Journey.

Bonnie Greer

#4. People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

Assata Shakur

#5. Again, keep everything.

Nedra Reynolds

#6. Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.

Samuel Beckett

#7. Sometimes, in periods of oppression and mass insanity, the most decisive form of resistance is simply the decision to not engage.

Lauren Oliver

#8. Resist any form of oppression.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Kill me if you will, I am not afraid to die; and I have endured so much oppression that I am weary of life. But I am a strong man, and I could cast both of you down, if I would. If you have any legal process to serve, present it, for I am at all times subject to law and shall not offer resistance.

Sam Smith

#10. So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.

Emma Goldman

#11. One person cannot make up for the evils of a whole system and it is the system that is to blame - the system of narrowness and of pride, and of exclusiveness, and of no one doing anything for another, unless there is something to be gained in return.

Amy Dillwyn

#12. Was it courage that made her take the last step, or weakness? Was it loss that walked her to the edge, or a search for freedom?

Scot Gardner

#13. He's really jealous, Ybon said rather weakly. Just have him meet me, Oscar said. I make all boyfriends feel better about themselves.

Junot Diaz

#14. Please wait for me, I'll be home shortly. Feel free to save Robert's life if you're bored.

Kelly Zekas

#15. There's a company that wants to put hair on me! I don't know if it's plugs, I'm sure it is. I laughed and said, 'You gotta be kidding.'

Terry Bradshaw

#16. If you are neutral in times of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Desmond Tutu

#17. She lay with her face to the wall, muttering low, but muttering always: Alas! alas! what is done in youth can never be undone in age! what is done in youth can never be undone in age!

Elizabeth Gaskell

#18. If it doesn't happen, the continuing oppression will be met by more resistance from a less tolerant populace which wants a democratic restoration. And that resistance will only invite further oppression.

Florencio Abad

#19. If we know one thing from experience it is that oppression does not crush rebellion, no matter how it tries,' I told him. 'It breeds it anew with every tyrannical act.

Isobelle Carmody

#20. But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.

Ron Paul

#21. The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.

Thomas Paine

#22. Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

Vladimir Nabokov