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Oppressed Quotes

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead. Cherrie Moraga
Simone de Beauvoir quote: "Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility."
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. Simone de Beauvoir
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge. Toni Morrison
Oppressed with countless little daily cares, he had waited... For an act. A free, considered act; that should pledge his whole life, and stand at the beginning of a new existence. Jean-Paul Sartre
Martin Amis quote: "Oppression lays down blood-lust. It lays it down like a wine."
Oppression lays down blood-lust. It lays it down like a wine. Martin Amis
Audre Lorde quote: "...oppression is as American as apple pie..."
...oppression is as American as apple pie... Audre Lorde
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group. Robin Morgan
Simone Weil quote: "Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not..."
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. Simone Weil
Junius quote: "Oppression is more easily endured than insult."
Oppression is more easily endured than insult. Junius
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion. Taslima Nasrin
A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their nature (i. e., oppressed) forever in ferment and agitation against their condition and what they understand to be their oppressors. If not by overt rebellion or revolution, then in the thousand and one ways they will devise with and without consciousness to alter their condition Lorraine Hansberry
..the struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermine their own efforts. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression. Bell Hooks
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. Karl Marx
When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others. Desmond Tutu
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. H. L. Mencken

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