oppression Quotes

“Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:future oppression tyranny

“If it is said men oppress women, the husband reacts indignantly; he feels oppressed: he is; but in fact, it is the masculine code, the society developed by males and in their interest, that has defined the feminine condition in a form that is now...”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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“Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habit of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“The same vicious circle can be found in all analogous circumstances: when an individual or a group of individuals is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he or they are inferior.”

― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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“If the oppressor uses violence, the oppressed have no alternative but to respond violently. In our case it was simply a legitimate form of self-defense.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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“sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.”

― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

topic:strength oppression

“Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind.”

― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

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“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic:freedom oppression fight

“Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.”

― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

topic:right oppression

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