As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology. – Donald Trump
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions. – Nawal El Saadawi
When you go through deep waters, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown. When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up; the flames will not consume you. – The Bible Isaiah 43:2
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in an autocracy. – David Harsanyi
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead. – Cherrie Moraga
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. – Jane Rule
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare. – Mahmoud Darwish
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. – Luis Bunuel
Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people. – Jean O’Leary
If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded. – King Solomon
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him all defence whatsoever against oppression. – Lysander Spooner
In recent years, we have seen the United States back away from pressuring the Castro regime, under the misguided view that placating them with an open hand would yield progress. That naivete has invited only more cruelty and oppression in return. – Mitt Romney
There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible – the new normal. – Michel Foucault
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. – Joseph Franklin Rutherford
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women. – Richard Dawkins
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group. – Robin Morgan
Does the global Left – as well as the Israeli Left – truly not care about the horrific Taliban regime, the terrible oppression of women in Gulf states, and the mass hanging festivals in Iran? – Yair Lapid
In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead. – Sabine Baring-Gould
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. – Thomas Paine
Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another. – Tim Wise
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing. – V. S. Naipaul
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting victims of darkness. – William O. Douglas
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. – Thomas Jefferson
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. – Thomas Jefferson
I like to be able to raise people’s consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty. – Wes Studi
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. – Simone Weil