Oppression Quotes

The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to save his throne when, after a long spell of oppression, he sets out to improve the lot of his subjects.

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: ‘We don’t serve colored people here.’ I said: ‘that’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

We stand United against Racism!

I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother who went through hell because she was divorced and had to bring up these kids. And I can take 10 men out to lunch and pay the bill, and nobody even thinks twice about it. So don’t mess with me.

Violence just hurts those who are already hurt. Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it.

He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.

Oppression is as American as apple pie.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another – no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

I’m not in favor of any discrimination of any form.