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Friday, March 18, 2016

INSPIRATIONAL Quotes About Oppression FROM goodreads



J.K. Rowling
“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. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince


Veronica Roth
“Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.”
― Veronica RothInsurgent

Robert F. Kennedy
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
― Robert F. Kennedy
Frederick Douglass
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
― Frederick Douglass


Theodore Roosevelt
“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
A.R. Bernard
“The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.”
― A.R. Bernard

Wilhelm Reich
“And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express”
― Wilhelm ReichBeyond Psychology: Letters and Journals, 1934-1939

“A good man would never harm or oppress another. A good man will share his last morsel of food with others in need, and die of hunger when he no longer has any food - instead of cheat or steal from others to survive. Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.”
― Suzy KassemRise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
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