All Quotes By Tag: Oppression

“The great and the mighty that use their assets and power to subjugate people are demonstrating oppression.”

“Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.”

“It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today’s modern slavery.”

“Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence.”

“If there is any society where the leaders lack the knowledge and the importance of justice, then oppression will be a common neighbor of the citizens.”

“Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed.”

“As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed.”

“Generational oppression begins when what is meant to be transferred to one offspring has been taken over by reason of oppression.”

“The oppressor will always despise their victims.”

“Do not waste your anger, you may just be the candidate to deliver a people from oppression or injustice.”

“Your anger against every form of insult and oppression must be out of love.”

“You have heard that it has been said,You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy.But I say to you,Love your enemies,Speak truth to the liars,Bless them that curse you,Do good to them that hate you,This is what they least wish you to do;In this way you will overcome all oppression.”

“London is one of the world’s centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; ‘Islamophobic’ to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.”

“The abiding western dominology can with religion sanction identify anything dark, profound, or fluid with a revolting chaos, an evil to be mastered, a nothing to be ignored. ‘God had made us master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has made us adept in government that we may administer government among savages and senile peoples.’ From the vantage point of the colonizing episteme, the evil is always disorder rather than unjust order; anarchy rather than control, darkness rather than pallor. To plead otherwise is to write ‘carte blanche for chaos.’ Yet those who wear the mark of chaos, the skins of darkness, the genders of unspeakable openings — those Others of Order keep finding voice. But they continue to be muted by the bellowing of the dominant discourse.”

“Let them shoot us in the head,My blood will grow rootsand will blossom.”