654 Quotes About Oppression

I was born free, yet today I am in chains. Invisible, they were loosely draped and passed unnoticed until the age of understanding reduced my life to a narrow segment of fear. - Sultana

Le pouvoir politique, à proprement parler, est le pouvoir organisé d’une classe pour l’oppression d’une autre.

In other words, neither oppression nor exploitation as such is ever the main cause for resentment; wealth without visible function is much more intolerable because nobody can understand why it should be tolerated. Antisemitism reached its climax when Jews had similarly lost their public functions and their influence, and were left with nothing but their wealth.

The world, in spite of oppression, is a beautiful place.

She was mourning all her life - not for her husband, who had released her with his death, but for her own dead heart.

When people have been oppressed for so long; they become immune to it.They sometimes see oppression as the alternative means to oppressed others.

By their hands, we succeed. By their arrogance, we prosper. They believed we would always play the game. Blocked by their certainty of our inferiority, they never imagined we would cease to collaborate in our own oppression.

... You can only properly oppress people through a stability bordering on stagnation.

The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided and controlled by those with superior authority.