Quotes About Resisting Oppression

#1. The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.

Beverly Daniel Tatum

#2. Without Scientology, I would be in an alley somewhere looking for dope.

Giovanni Ribisi

#3. Children ... need most of the same things adults need
consideration, respect for their work, the knowledge that they and the things they do are taken seriously.

Caroline Pratt

#4. His smile had an attractive quality, the smile of a man of the world who used it, not to cover his words, but to stress the audacity of expressing a sincere emotion.

Ayn Rand

#5. I really like transgressive characters that have an alternate world view. I've actually written a fair number of kids movies, and I'll insert these kid-friendly articulate sociopaths who are usually yelling at the children for their own benefit.

Matt Nix

#6. Despite the best of efforts, many foster children are neither reunited with their families, nor adopted.

Charles Bass

#7. Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression.

Lysander Spooner

#8. I fell in love with New York.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#9. Mojo grace means the shocking benevolence of a mysterious force beyond our comprehension.

Rob Brezsny

#10. Paranoid Android,

Douglas Adams

#11. And from that day to this, no power on earth can keep a rabbit out of a vegetable garden, for El-ahrairah prompts them with a thousand tricks, the best in the world.

Richard Adams

#12. Who else but utopians could make utopia?

Dave Eggers

#13. There was a point of frustration, where I thought I should just take a film, even though I didn't want to. I was impatient with being at home. But I hung on to the approach I've always had, which is to wait for a project that I could contribute something unique to.

Peter Weir

#14. I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.

Pablo Picasso

#15. A dark thought will never lead you to the light because darkness is terrified of light.

Toni Sorenson

#16. You must have a strong will and determined spirit to fight any form of oppression.

Lailah Gifty Akita