Oppression Quotes

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Quotes on Oppression

"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 · Oppression · 0 fans >>
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"All oppression creates a state of war."

Beauvoir, Simone De · Oppression · 0 fans >>
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"Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining."

Bellow, Saul · Oppression · 0 fans >>
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"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 · Oppression · 0 fans >>
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"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."

Biko, Steven · Oppression · 0 fans >>
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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 · Oppression · 0 fans >>
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"Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress."

Bonaparte, Napoleon · Oppression · 0 fans >>
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"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. · Oppression · 0 fans >>
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"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. · Oppression · 0 fans >>
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"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 · Oppression · 1 fans >>
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