Oppression Quotes

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.

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Happy it is when the interest which the government has in the preservation of its own power, coincides with a proper distribution of the public burthens, and tends to guard the least wealthy part of the community from oppression!

Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor – anybody can do that – but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.