Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Oppression Quotes
OppressionResilienceSacrificeStruggle For RecognitionUnheard Voices Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
ConsequenceIdolatryOppressionPower So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.
Human RightsLegal SegregationMoral UnityOppressionResistance In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.
FreedomOppressionResistance Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
FreedomLeadershipOppressionPowerUnity One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.
FreedomHistoryOppressionPrejudiceRacism White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.
Global SolidarityNon-violenceOppressionPeaceSocial Justice In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime.
OpiumOppressionReligionSoulWorldly Conditions Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
ExploitationInequalityInstabilityOppressionSocial Unrest Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
ExploitationInjusticeMoralityOppression Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.
GovernmentJusticeOppressionWeakness Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
ControlDeceptionDualityManipulationOppression War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
ControlIntelligenceOppressionSociety War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
Freedom of SpeechLibertyOppressionVulnerability If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
CourageCreativityExpressionFreedomOppression Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
Abuse of PowerDemocracyMinority RightsOppression In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
DegradationDignityOppressionStruggle Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
FeminismGender EqualityOppressionSocial JusticeWomen S Rights The more I think on the present condition of woman, the more am I oppressed with the reality of their degradation.
DiscriminationMarginalizationOppressionSocial Inequality Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
DespairFutureOppressionSuffering If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
DesperationOppressionPower StrugglesResistance People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
DiscriminationInequalityOppressionRepresentation I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
EqualityFreedomGood IntentionsOppressionTyranny Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
