Oppression proverbs

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◆ Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

- Veronica Roth99

◆ The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

- Karl Marx99

◆ One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

- Carl Sagan99

◆ Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! 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. Rowling99

◆ If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, that's just what I'll do. It's this kind of regard for others that makes me believe I'd be a good politician.

- Jarod Kintz99

◆ Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

- Robert F. Kennedy99

◆ Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.

- Alan Moore99

◆ The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.

- James Madison99

◆ The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?

- George Orwell99

◆ Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

- Frederick Douglass99

◆ Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

- Junius98

◆ Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

- Victor Hugo98

◆ He who allows oppression shares the crime.

- Desiderius Erasmus98

◆ When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

- Florynce R Kennedy98

◆ Government of man by man in every form is oppression.

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