Oppression Quotes - Page 38

• I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

  Jordan Peele

  Commitment, Racism, Looks

  "‘Get Out’ dials up the scary side of race in America". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 6, 2017.

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• There are things that you can do on an individual level, even as you continue to fight oppression systemically, that make things a little bit better for an identifiable group.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Fighting, Groups, Levels

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In fact, it is the dictatorship's policy that isolates the people of Burma while it reaches out to different countries every year and opens new embassies around the world. It is the dictatorship's policy that kills civilians and makes people poor. As long as the dictatorship is in power, foreign trade and investment in Burma will not benefit people. Instead, it will end up fueling the oppression in Burma.

  Zoya Phan

  Country, Years, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I couldn't stand for a flag that represented tyranny and oppression. Not just from a domestic perspective but from a global one. It's supposed to represent equality and justice for all, and I believe the flag is a symbol that's supposed to represent the character of the people. When that character is not in line with what I believe in, then I'm opposed to that symbol. I couldn't see myself standing and still can't.

  Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf

  Believe, Character, Justice

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of misadventures and crimes and oppressions visited upon the innocent, the poor, the defenseless, the minorities, and so on. This created a new narrative in America. Let's call it, "America the inexcusable." And this narrative has been drummed into the minds of our young people. A whole generation of Americans has been taught that theirs is a bad country. And it's then very difficult for them to figure out how one can one be a good citizen in a bad country.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Country, War, People

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• I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated

  Mukhtar Ma'i

  Fighting, Poor

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• We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!

  Bobby Seale

  Hate, Color, Don't Hate

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• If Saddam Hussein committed crimes such as political oppression against the Iraqi people, it should be resolved legally in a fair and just manner which doesn't paint a sense of injustice

  Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

  People, Political, Hussein

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• The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to the past.

  Juan Somavia

  Mean, Past, Slavery

  "Human trafficking on the rise". www.cnn.com. July 5, 2001.

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• I apologize to everyone who was offended by my insensitive tweet about the situation in Egypt. I've dedicated my life to raising awareness about serious social issues, and in hindsight my attempt at humor regarding a nation liberating themselves against oppression was poorly timed and absolutely inappropriate.

  Kenneth Cole

  Egypt, Issues, Serious

  "Egypt protests". www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2011.

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• Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.

  Frederick Lenz

  War, Women, Enlightenment

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• The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the gullible American people. People as uninformed and as gullible as Americans have no future. Americans are a dead people that history is about to run over.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Running, War, People

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• Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Submit

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.67

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• Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Antagonism, Form

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.234, Cambridge University Press

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• With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath set you free From old oppression.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Sight, Smell, Joy

  Hartley Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge (1851). “Poems”, p.284

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• There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.

  Ronald Reagan

  Two, People, Ceilings

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• [T]he powers granted by the proposed Constitution are the gift of the people, and may be resumed by them when perverted to their oppression, and every power not granted thereby remains with the people.

  James Madison

  People, May, Constitution

  James Madison (1904). “The Writings of James Madison: 1787-1790”

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• We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something to resist, we're complicit in the persistence of oppression.

  Marc Lamont Hill

  Persistence, Violence, Honest

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I didn't know enough about the Civil War or its lingering effects as we all should. It's really easy to think that the Civil War was the end of slavery, and the triumph of our collective conscience and humanity over oppression. Sadly, the oppression and systemic subjugation of people of color in this country still exists.

  Bryce Pinkham

  Country, War, Thinking

  Source: mercystreet.lunchbox.pbs.org

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• The American administration obviously has supported the dictators in the Muslim countries and the Muslims are rising, as you can see their boiling in Libya and Egypt and many other countries and they're rising up against the oppression and the Americans should stay away from trying to, if you like, put another dictator in place, and I don't think the American interest in the current time in the Middle East with their presence, rather they should withdraw their forces, they should withdraw their own personnel, this is a very insecure time for the Americans I think.

  Anjem Choudary

  Country, Insecure, Thinking

  Source: www.yahoo.com

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• Some will say: "Why should we celebrate the birth of colonialism, of oppression, of cultural genocide through Canada 150?" It's 2017. In spite of the genocide we faced via the residential school system, and all we have endured from colonialism and control, from 1876 to this day, we're still here. We need to show the country and the world that we are still here.

  Perry Bellegarde

  Country, School, World

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• When it comes to the discussion of oppression in America, we've been experiencing the worst of it for a long time. What's exciting to me is the prospect of going from worst to first in a forward-moving transformation which is going to take groups of dispossessed black folks here and others and make us controllers of our own destiny.

  Chokwe Lumumba

  Moving, Destiny, America

  Source: bknation.org

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• All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Government, Splits, Fool

  Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim (1987). “Poems, 1913-1956”, p.186, Taylor & Francis

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• I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Hate, Hypocrisy, Hatred

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 298, 1895.

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• Spiritual models for me are the communities of Tibetans living in exile in India, or the banjars of Bali, which exist in times of difficulty, oppression. Alternative spaces-perhaps this kind of communication can take place over the Net? Probably only up to a point as the Net's controlled by the military. But the idea is to live outside multi-national, monocultural, commodification prison, outside the grey areas of power-mad, monied collusion.

  Anne Waldman

  Spiritual, Military, Communication

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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