(160 quotes found)
“There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes”
Emily Dickinson
“He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.”
M. Grundler
“Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In colder to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.”
Rita Dove
“The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?”
Nadine Gordimer
“I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do.”
D. Dale Gulledge
“We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!”
Bobby Seale
“Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.”
Bible
