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If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.

~ Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt Injustice Oppression

It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work

~ Sheryl Wudunn

Sheryl Wudunn Educational Injustice Oppression

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

~ Veronica Roth

Veronica Roth Oppression

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. Rowling

J.k. Rowling Oppression Tyrants

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Liberation Oppression

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

~ Assata Shakur

Assata Shakur Liberation Oppression Resistance

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Liberation Oppression

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.

~ James Madison

James Madison Oppression Privacy

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Liberation Oppression

We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Assertiveness Bully Coward Oppression Timidity

The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.

~ Albert Camus

Albert Camus Cruelty Oppression

To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Liberation Oppression

Assist your Muslim brother, whether he be an oppressor or oppressed. Bu how shall we doit when he is an oppressor? enquired a companion. Muhammad replied, Assisting an oppressor by forbidding and witholding him from oppression.

~ Anonymous

Anonymous Oppression Prophet Muhammad

Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is bad and and other is good, those with “good” bodies constantly fear that their bodies will go “bad”, and those with “bad” bodies are expected feel shame and do everything they can to have “good” bodies. In the process, we torture our bodies, and do everything from engage in disordered eating to invasive surgery to make ourselves okay. Nobody wins in this kind of struggle.

~ Golda Poretsky

Golda Poretsky Body Acceptance Body Image Diet Dieting Diets Oppression

..the struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the eradication of sexism without struggles to end racism or classism undermine their own efforts. Individuals who fight for the eradication of racism or classism while supporting sexist oppression are helping to maintain the cultural basis of all forms of group oppression.

~ Bell Hooks

Bell Hooks Liberation Oppression

OppressionNow dreamsAre not availableTo the dreamers,Nor songsTo the singers.In some landsDark nightAnd cold steelPrevail--But the dreamWill come back,And the songBreakIts jail.

~ Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes Break Free Oppression

An individual excels where the institution fails.

~ Joel T. Mcgrath

Joel T. Mcgrath Contemplation Oppression

No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.

~ Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Oppression Patriarchy

Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity.

~ Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde Oppression Privilegel

... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion ... that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them.

~ Dan Brown

Dan Brown Bullying Compassion Decency Fanaticism History Nationalism Oppression Tolerance Tyranny

By saying that human issues are more important than non-human issues, that violence to humans is more relevant than violence to animals, one forgets that the animal liberation movement implies a message of peace for every being on earth and the opposition against the mindset of oppression. To make a distinction between one violence and another is exactly the root of all violence: Some wouldn't do any harm to those who share with them a flag, a religion, a language, etc. but would easily condemn to suffering and death those who are different. This tragic use of diversity as an excuse to inflict pain on others for a matter of profit and convenience is the cause of suffering for both human and non-human animals.

~ Mango Wodzak

Mango Wodzak Animal Liberation Animal Rights Convenience Human Rights Opposition Oppression Peace Profit Religion Suffering

It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual relationships.

~ Albert Memmi

Albert Memmi Manipulation Oppression

And yet it was a fact that if Syme grasped, even for three seconds, the nature of his, Winston's, secret opinions, he would betray him instantly to the Thought Police. So would anybody else for that matter: but Syme more than most. Zeal was not enough. Orthodoxy was unconsciousness.

~ George Orwell

George Orwell Individualism Oppression Political Correctness

Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of political parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, and so on, is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. DO NOT FALL FOR IT.

~ Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Oppression Resistance Tyranny

And, sincerely, we respect her stance. The Liberal Rednecks are all about standing up for your beliefs even when they’re hateful, bigoted, and go against everything your alleged Lord and Savior stood for. The thing is, doing that would have involved quitting her job—but that’s just something the four-times-married mother was not prepared to do for her faith. Go on TV and be called a hero by powerful politicians who agree with her and her “stand”? Sure, that’s fine. Have the Church pay for her legal bills and prop her up (instead of, oh we don’t know, giving that money to the poor)? Yes, sir. But actually quit instead of breaking an oath (which, by the way, is a sin)? That’s just something Jesus apparently wouldn’t do. Kim Davis is an analogy for Christians at large in the South. She was not oppressed. She was not forced to do anything. She could have quit. The truth is she did not want to quit her job as an elected official. She wanted to bend the political will of those around her so she could prevent other humans from marrying each other because she didn’t like the idea of it. That’s not oppression—that’s someone trying to use the inordinate amount of power they have (over the media and literally as the clerk) to affect the lives of strangers she disagrees with. Guess what that is? Yup. That is oppression.

~ Trae Crowder

Trae Crowder Kim Davis Marriage Equality Marriage Equality Opponents Oppression Religious Liberty Law

They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge in this city.

~ Mitch Landrieu

Mitch Landrieu Oppression Slavery In The United States

The old idea, or rather the old prejudice, that women are protected by men was so deeply ingrained in that society that they overlooked what was the most obvious, that is, that the weakest and the disadvantaged are the most exposed.

~ Ruth Klüger

Ruth Klüger Holocaust Oppression

I was born free, yet today I am in chains. Invisible, they were loosely draped and passed unnoticed until the age of understanding reduced my life to a narrow segment of fear. - Sultana

~ Jean Sasson

Jean Sasson Oppression

When I look at people talking about intersectionality, what I see is the human being magnifying a biological attribute, and then putting them aside, putting them in a corner as victims of oppression....I most certainly don't see myself as a victim.

~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Identitypolitics Intersectional Intersectionality Liberalism Oppression Victimattitude Victimmentality

Mainly, it’s not that there are things you can’t say. It’s that there are things you can’t say without the risk that people who previously lacked a voice might use their own freedom of speech to object.

~ Oliver Burkeman

Oliver Burkeman Bigotry Freedom Of Speech Oppression Pc Political Correctness Politically Correct Politically Correct Culture Silencing Others Speaking Out

There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves. For they will justify all means of self-preservation, including the persecution and oppression of others to the extent of, and worse than that they had endured. This will weigh heavily on the souls of future generations.

~ H. N. Ellessy

H. N. Ellessy Ethnic Cleansing Generations Genocide Holocaust Oppression Persecution

I walked and walked, sometimes with an objective- a friend's house, a shop, the church or school- but mostly at random, to outrun oppression.

~ Jessica Anderson

Jessica Anderson Oppression Random Walking

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?

~ Paulo Freire

Paulo Freire Oppressed Oppression Question Revolutionary Why

In other words, neither oppression nor exploitation as such is ever the main cause for resentment; wealth without visible function is much more intolerable because nobody can understand why it should be tolerated.

~ Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt 1968 Alexis De Tocqueville Aristocracy French Revolution Oppression Political Struggle Wealth Disparity

When people have been oppressed for so long, they become immune to it.They sometimes see oppression as the alternative means to oppressed others.

~ Henry Johnson Jr

Henry Johnson Jr Hate Quotes Love Means Oppressed Oppression

When a nation is under oppression for too long, it gets used to it and begins to agree with that oppression

~ Sunday Adelaja

Sunday Adelaja Agree Begin Long Nation Oppression

Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism.

~ Jorge Ramos

Jorge Ramos Elie Wiesel Journalism Journalists Neutrality Oppression Oppressor Victim Victims

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lies are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men and women are prosecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must--at that moment--become the center of the universe.

~ Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel Human Suffering Oppression

Not being treated as equal IS oppression

~ Christina Engela

Christina Engela Equal Oppression

The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided and controlled by those with superior authority.

~ Carl R. Rogers

Carl R. Rogers Oppression Trustworthiness
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