66 quotes found
“We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.”
“The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.”
“Society's revenge matched its fright.”
“Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.”
“Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many vict...”
“If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.”
“Assist your Muslim brother, whether he be an oppressor or oppressed. "Bu how shall we doit when he is an oppressor?" enquired a companion. Muhammad replied, "Assisting an oppressor by forbidding an...”
“Perhaps Bug and Tony should have been allies. But any successful structure of domination always gets the weak to reject each other.”
“No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.”
“Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity.”
“Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The sudde...”
“They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city.”
“Being submissive is not being oppressed.”
“P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.”
“If you are blaming the oppressed rather than the oppressor you know that something is wrong.”
“I was born free, yet today I am in chains. Invisible, they were loosely draped and passed unnoticed until the age of understanding reduced my life to a narrow segment of fear. - Sultana”
“Histories are instruments of oppression.”
“I walked and walked, sometimes with an objective- a friend's house, a shop, the church or school- but mostly at random, to outrun oppression.”
“Women in America read 'lifestyle' pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves ...”
“If oppression produced saints, wed want everyone to be oppressed.”
