Top 29 Victims Of Oppression Quotes
#1. Your lingering cigarette smell makes me feel more empty.
Mika Yamamori
#2. I hold that in every situation of injustice and oppression, the Christian
who cannot deal with it by violence
must make himself completely a part of it as representative of the victims.
Jacques Ellul
#3. I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
Vita Sackville-West
#4. Oppression sometimes benefits its victims more than its perpetrators.
Andrew Solomon
#6. At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
Jimmy Carter
#7. Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessness in the past, despite allthe injustices that we have endured
today, now, the Palestinians are the victims of oppression, and their oppressors are the Israelis.
Irena Klepfisz
#8. The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.
George Washington
#9. Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion ... they need our legs & lungs of endurance.
Gary Haugen
#10. Physical diseases, engendered in the vices and neglects of men, will seize on victims of all degrees; and the frightful moral disorder, born of unspeakable suffering, intolerable oppression, and heartless indifference, smote equally without distinction.
Charles Dickens
#11. Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart.
Mark Batterson
#12. The bands and the roadies, love 'em and leave 'em. It's pleasure to try 'em, but trouble to keep 'em.
Joni Mitchell
#13. The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.
M.F. Moonzajer
#14. They [Muslims] are backward and evil and if it is racist to say so ... then racist I must be - and happy and proud, to be so.
Robert Kilroy-Silk
#15. If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.
Franklin P. Adams
#16. If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.
Jonathan Haidt
#17. When I look at people talking about intersectionality, what I see is the human being magnifying a biological attribute, and then putting them aside, putting them in a corner as victims of oppression....I most certainly don't see myself as a victim.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#18. Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression. He who puts his faith in the restoration of human dignity cannot be wrong.
Poul Hartling
#19. Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#20. Such a notion made it virtually impossible to enjoy life! And this, If God did not exist, man would
Sue Monk Kidd
#21. Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!
J.K. Rowling
#22. A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.
Kate Millett
#23. A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.
Donalyn Miller
#24. I went to Mongolia many years ago and it was so incredible.
Milla Jovovich
#25. Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism.
Jorge Ramos
#26. Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens
Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of
Dickens
W.S. Gilbert
#27. Roosevelt was as much concerned to end the oppression of Jews as Lincoln was to end slavery during the Civil War; their priority in policy (whatever their personal compassion for victims of persecution) was not minority rights, but national power.
Howard Zinn
#28. In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.
Isaac Bashevis Singer