654 Quotes About Oppression

... it didn't seem I could know it until I had lived it.

It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.

Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.

Man perpetuates his own laws to keep order in a mandatory constant step ahead of the chaos.

All we can infer (from the archaeological shards dug up in Berkshire, Devon and Yorkshire) is that the first Britons, whoever they were and however they came, arrived from elsewhere. The land (Britain) was once utterly uninhibited. Then people came.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

The real practical revolution begins when you stand up in front of an everyday injustice and say - "no more".

My heart isn't big enough to care for the oppressors.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.