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Oppression can only survive through silence.

Carmen de Monteflores

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Desiderius Erasmus

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Edmund Burke

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power on behalf of tyranny and oppression.

Malcolm X

All oppressed people seize whatever weapons they can to fight oppression.

John Lowe

I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated.

Mukhtar Mai

Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion - I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

Diane Sawyer

Never underestimate internalized racism. People can be oppressed, yet continue to express their oppression in their own choices.

Susan Morris

In this workshop we hope to open discussion on the parallels between disability, oppression and racism.

John Morman

The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.

Daniel Ortega

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

Carl T. Rowan

We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!

Bobby Seale

The hardship and oppression of others.

George W Bush

But far be it from us to intend their hurt or damage, or to make war upon them, otherwise than to deliver ourselves and them from tyranny and oppression.

Perkin Warbeck

If Bush carries on with his lies and oppression, it would be useful for you to read the book Rogue State.

Bin Laden

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Louis D. Brandeis

It was a time of oppression and you spoke up -- and we won. Without you, I wouldn't be standing up here either.

Terrence Mcnally

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

Sam Houston

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

Luis Bunuel

We must realize that companies such as Caterpillar are profiting from oppression.

Chris Towne

This award is a victory for poor women; it's a victory for all women, ... End oppression with education.

Mukhtar Mai

We're trying to apologize for years of white oppression. I know it doesn't make a nice sound bite, but ...

Tim Bodine

Oppression is allowed to survive because people don't like to talk about it or about acts like what happened. We're hoping to counter some of that with the help of this banner.

Tim Gordon

These schools need to learn from history and end religion-based oppression. The Bible has been used for centuries to make an outcast.

Haven Herrin

The occupation and robbery of a nation occurs under the illusion of freeing its citizens from brutal oppression.

Ramman Kenoun

We mourn the loss of Tom Fox, who combined a lightness of spirit, a firm opposition to all oppression, and the recognition of God in everyone.

Carol Rose

My slogan is to end oppression through education.

Mukhtar Mai

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

The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

Friedrich Engels

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Anna Sewell

In every age, no matter how cruel the oppression carried on by those in power, there have been those who struggled for a different world. I believe this is the genius of humankind, the thing that makes us half divine: the fact that some human beings can envision a world that has never existed.

Anne Braden

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Vladimir Nabokov

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Junius

It's fun, I suppose. It may be that the story of Hanukkah has appeal, that's it's about not assimilating, about fighting oppression. But it's probably because they grew up with it.

Ed Case