Oppression Quotes

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

Racism is a form of hate. We pass it on to our young people. When we do that, we are robbing children of their innocence.

Be careful out there; I hear humans get killed for wearing the wrong skin.

They silenced her tongue, for they feared how sharp it might cut them.

Our elders said back then that if Black folks really wanted to see Change, they had to step up to the plate and do it themselves. Somebody has to be First. Will that be you?

Mr. DeMille’s theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.

Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.

It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed – who cannot speak for themselves.