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Quotations regarding 'Oppression'

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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
Carl T. Rowan, American Journalist (1925-2000)
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.
Jane Rule, Canadian Author (1931-  )
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American Clergyman (1869-1942)
The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis.
Ali A. Saleh, -
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, American Activist (1879-1966)
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
Anna Sewell, English Writer (1820-1878)
If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.
King Solomon, Royalty
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Tacitus, Roman Historian
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.
Oliver Tambo, South African Politician (1917-1993)
Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.
Neil Tennant, English Musician (1954-  )
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.
Randall Terry, American Celebrity
Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression.
Thomas Tryon, British Celebrity
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, American Writer (1962-2008)
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
Noah Webster, American Writer (1758-1843)
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Simone Weil, French Philosopher (1909-1943)
Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.
James Q. Wilson, American Politician (1931-  )
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.
Chen Ning Yang, American Physicist (1922-  )
Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.
Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.
bell hooks, American Critic (1952-  )
 
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