oppression Quotes

“In four short months, our nation has comforted the victims, begun to rebuild New York and the Pentagon, rallied a great coalition, captured, arrested, and rid the world of thousands of terrorists, destroyed Afghanistan's terrorist training camps,...”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

topic:oppression

“The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women.”

― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

topic:women society oppression

“Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby

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“At the present time, an oppressed member of the community has therefore only one method of self-defence—he may appeal to the whole nation; and if the whole nation is deaf to his complaint, he may appeal to mankind: the only means he has of...”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison, a more illustrious abode; every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

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“Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. Now . . . if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave.”

― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

topic:learning slavery oppression

“I am deeply touched by the sincere concern shown by so many people in this part of the world for the suffering of the people of Tibet. That is a source of hope not only for us Tibetans, but for all oppressed people.”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture

topic:hope oppression

“There will always be a great difference between subduing a multitude and ruling a society.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:society oppression

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