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"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."

Baldwin, James on oppression    Share


"All oppression creates a state of war."

Beauvoir, Simone De on oppression    Share

"Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining."

Bellow, Saul on oppression    Share

"Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon."

Berger, John on oppression    Share

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."

Biko, Steven on oppression
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"Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words of stern philosophy and knead the bread of knowledge with tears and groans."

Blake, William on oppression    Share

"Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on oppression    Share

"They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on oppression    Share

"Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise."

Cioran, E. M. on oppression    Share

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."

Douglass, Frederick on oppression
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"The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude."

Dworkin, Andrea on oppression    Share

"You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl."

Eliot, George on oppression    Share

"We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again."

Greene, Nathanael on oppression    Share

"You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt."

Hand, Learned on oppression    Share

"True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?"

Havel, Vaclav on oppression    Share

"First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided."

Jean, General Iberico Saint on oppression    Share

"Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on oppression    Share

"Loss of freedom seldom happens overnight. Oppression doesn't stand on the doorstep with toothbrush moustache and swastika armband -- it creeps up insidiously... step by step, and all of a sudden the unfortunate citizen realizes that it is gone."

Lane, Baron on oppression    Share

"The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors."

Le Sueur, Meridel on oppression    Share

"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on oppression    Share

"The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it."

Marcuse, Herbert on oppression    Share

"Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on oppression    Share

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever."

Orwell, George on oppression
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"Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission."

Weil, Simone on oppression    Share

"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

Weil, Simone on oppression
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