#oppression

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

#civilization #danger #gigantic #midst #multitudes

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded. ↗

— King Solomon

#country #justice #oppression #poor #righteousness

...it is not really the difference the oppressor fears so much as the similarity. He fears he will discover in himself the same aches, the same longings as those of the people he has shit on... . He fears he will have to change his life once he has seen himself in the bodies of the people he has called different. ↗

— Cherrie Morago

#oppression #change

We recognize, however dimly, that greater efficiency, ease, and security may come at a substantial price in freedom, that law and order can be a doublethink version of oppression, that individual liberties surrendered, for whatever good reason, are freedoms lost. ↗

— Walter Cronkite preface to the

#liberty #oppression #security #freedom

You can cage the singer but not the song. ↗

— Harry Belafonte

#oppression #terrorism

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

— Karl Marx

#oppression #politics #representation #repression #society

The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#ignorance #illness #oppression #poverty #war

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#gives #hate #hope #i #liberation

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#beneath #born #every #every man #fact

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression. ↗

— Confucius

#feel #oppression #should #sink #sorrow