654 Quotes About Oppression

... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them.

What is so dreadful is that to transform the traumatic we must re-enter it fully, and allow the full weight of grief to pass through our hearts. It is not possible to digest atrocity without tasting it first, without assessing on our tongues the full bitterness of it.

...people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Fear not - you are my fiery sisters and brothers - oppressors will tremble hearing your footsteps and bigots will shiver at the sight of your arrival.

Battle Hymn of The Public (The Humanist Sonnet)Mine eyes have seen the glory,Of the rising of the Gods.We are fighting all the worry,Trampling authority of the frauds.We are awakening ourselves,Breaking the spell of tradition.Finally we are breathing free,Devoid of all segregation.We still have our prejudices,But we no longer bow to them.Biases may still prevail in us,No more do we submit to them.God ain't up there but here in you and me.Awake, Arise O Mighty Gods to die for the unfree.

We need to remind the peers of the bully that they benefit from bullying even if they are not themselves the transgressors. Indeed, they benefit from it, but they are tarnished by it. To chip away at the humanity of select groups is to chip away at humanity itself.

I want to sharpen my pride on what strengthens me, my witness on what haunts me. Whatever we name ourselves, however we end up shattering our self-hatred, shame, silence, and isolation, the goal is the same: to end our daily material oppression.

The poets and writers are trying to understand the reality of woman, but up to this day they have not understood the hidden secret of her heart because they look upon her from behind the sexual veil and see nothing but the externals: they look upon her through a magnifying glass of hatefulness and find nothing except weakness and submission.

Isn't it odd that some groups view being legally equal to other groups as 'oppression'?