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Oppression Quotes

If there’s a theme in my work, it’s that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it Picture Quote #1

Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression Picture Quote #1

I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it’s the tacit consent of a public Picture Quote #1

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave Picture Quote #1

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression Picture Quote #1

What people don’t know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system Picture Quote #1

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When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves Picture Quote #1

Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution [of Egypt]. We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression Picture Quote #1

That’s one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past Picture Quote #1

You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression Picture Quote #1

I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation Picture Quote #1

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion - I’ve worked with my best friends in direct competition Picture Quote #1

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The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called ‘Untouchables,’ the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression Picture Quote #1

I don’t think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression Picture Quote #1

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That’s oppression in this country Picture Quote #1

I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South Picture Quote #1

I didn’t run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place Picture Quote #1

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - ‘This is ours! This belongs to us.’ You can’t just talk about equality for somebody else. Let’s pass it on. Let’s pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality Picture Quote #1

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It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black Picture Quote #1

A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization’s struggle against oppression Picture Quote #1

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others Picture Quote #1

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression Picture Quote #1

As a kid, I didn’t need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the middle-grade science fiction novel that became ‘The Boy at the End of the World,’ it seemed only natural to build the story around a dark vision of the future. In my book, civilization has nearly destroyed itself Picture Quote #1

What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God Picture Quote #1

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[Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction Picture Quote #1

While everyone’s experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself Picture Quote #1

I like to be able to raise people’s consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty Picture Quote #1

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a ‘disposable’ culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new Picture Quote #1

[Stieg] was describing Sweden the way it was and the way he saw the country: the scandals, the oppression of women, the friends he cherished and wished to honor Picture Quote #1

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all Picture Quote #1

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If there’s a theme in my work, it’s that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it. (Oppression Quotes) Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression (Oppression Quotes) I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it’s the tacit consent of a public. (Oppression Quotes) People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave. (Oppression Quotes) I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression. (Oppression Quotes) What people don’t know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system. (Oppression Quotes) When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves. (Oppression Quotes) Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution [of Egypt]. We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression. (Oppression Quotes) That’s one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past. (Oppression Quotes) You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression (Oppression Quotes) I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation. (Oppression Quotes) Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion - I’ve worked with my best friends in direct competition (Oppression Quotes) The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called ‘Untouchables,’ the outcastes who for millennia suffered humiliating discrimination and oppression. (Oppression Quotes) I don’t think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression. (Oppression Quotes) Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That’s oppression in this country. (Oppression Quotes) I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South (Oppression Quotes) I didn’t run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place. (Oppression Quotes) Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - ‘This is ours! This belongs to us.’ You can’t just talk about equality for somebody else. Let’s pass it on. Let’s pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality. (Oppression Quotes) It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black. (Oppression Quotes) A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that he hijacked Flight 97 under orders from his higher-ups in the Black Panther Party; he said his mission was to arrange for the purchase of bazookas to aid the organization’s struggle against oppression. (Oppression Quotes) White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others. (Oppression Quotes) . . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression. (Oppression Quotes) As a kid, I didn’t need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the middle-grade science fiction novel that became ‘The Boy at the End of the World,’ it seemed only natural to build the story around a dark vision of the future. In my book, civilization has nearly destroyed itself. (Oppression Quotes) What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God. (Oppression Quotes) [Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction. (Oppression Quotes) While everyone’s experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself. (Oppression Quotes) I like to be able to raise people’s consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty. (Oppression Quotes) Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a ‘disposable’ culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. (Oppression Quotes) [Stieg] was describing Sweden the way it was and the way he saw the country: the scandals, the oppression of women, the friends he cherished and wished to honor. (Oppression Quotes) While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all. (Oppression Quotes)

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