“I support a two-state solution—with an Israeli state side by side with a Palestinian state. That said, I will never apologize for standing up against oppression and injustice in Israel or anywhere else.”— Ilhan Omar, int.nyt.com
“My coming to New York had been a mistake; for whereas I had looked for poignant wonder and inspiration in the teeming labyrinths of ancient streets that twist endlessly from forgotten courts and squares and waterfronts to courts and squares and waterfronts equally forgotten, and in the Cyclopean mod…”— H. P. Lovecraft, hplovecraft.com
“Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.”— Booker T. Washington, amazon.com
“If the race is in danger of being oppressed or even exterminated the question of legality is only of secondary importance. The established power may in such a case employ only those means which are recognized as 'legal.’ yet the instinct of self-preservation on the part of the oppressed will always…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“Whatever the theories may be of woman’s dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens. Alone she goes to the gates of death to give life to every man that is born into the world. No one can share her fears, no one can mitigate her pangs; and if her sorrow is great…”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com
“Unfortunately, oppression does not automatically produce only meaningful struggle. It has the ability to call into being a wide range of responses between partial acceptance and violent rebellion. In between you can have, for instance, a vague, unfocused dissatisfaction; or, worst of all, savage inf…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“Kanye is betting on anti-blackness to gain him power and notoriety in non-black circles. He is selling out his own people because he knows that non-black people really love to think that black people are oppressed because they want to be.”— Ijeoma Oluo, medium.com
“In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.”— John McCain, nytimes.com
“White systems of oppression seek to divide, to distract, to turn kinfolk against each other, to foster false competition. Their cherry-picked version of blackness, black pain, and acceptable blackness has become weaponized. Reviewers, I see you. You're not slick.”— Dhonielle Clayton, twitter.com
“Man cannot be both savior and oppressor, light and shadow. One has to be sacrificed for the other. Choose and choose wisely. Or others shall choose for you.”— Luke Kalteux, Madame Gao, Wai Ching Ho, imdb.com
“Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.”— James K. Polk, presidential-power.org
“By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one. It is a right to be exercised in subordination to the Constitution and in conformity to it. One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching…”— James K. Polk, yale.edu
“If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”— Malcolm X, amazon.com
“What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lo…”— Joseph Stalin, marx2mao.com
“The words 'law and order' have so frequently been misused as an excuse for oppression that the very phrase has become suspect in countries which have known authoritarian rule.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.”— Sam Houston, famoustexans.com
“Various oppressive systems – from patriarchy to white supremacy to capitalism and beyond – have had a say in what it means to present ourselves “respectfully” for centuries. The last thing that we need is for our antidote movements to replicate those same hierarchies.”— Melissa A. Fabello, everydayfeminism.com
“We say "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" when the focus should be on the fact that there is no ethical PRODUCTION under capitalism. Everything produced under the capitalist mode of production is a result of exploitation. The focus on consumption rather than production places more em…”— Mond Sankara, facebook.com