Oppressed Quotes

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity. - Lajos Kossuth

You really feel for them. The volunteers talk about their own personal experiences of being oppressed in Iraq, ... Their accounts range from being brutalized to being shot, and in some cases, the exiles say their family members have been murdered. - Bob Stern

You need to stand up for oppressed persons, people who cannot stand up for themselves and for yourself. But never fight just for the sake of it. Our 10th prophet bestowed that responsibility to us?. It is a privilege also, not just a responsibility. - Priya Paul

You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them. - Jupiter Hammon

You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good. - Yahoo Serious

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living. - Germaine Greer

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion. - Taslima Nasrin

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith. - Hans Urs Von Balthasar

When men are oppressed it is a tragedy, when women are oppressed it is a tradition. - Bernadette Mosala