Oppresses Quotes

Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor.", infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. - Wendell Phillips

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Carl Gustav Jung

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes. - Emily Dickinson

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others. - Edward Irving

The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience, but the gift of office is the dreadful burthen which oppresses him. - Thomas Jefferson

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit. - Alveda King

One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses and oppresses. - Robin Wood

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot. - Vladimir Lenin

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. - Chinua Achebe