Opposing Oppression Quotes

We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!

The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

We speak truth to power, and we've never been fooled into believing Donald Trump 'can be a good president.'

To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down.

I don't fight fascists because I'll win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.

When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery.

My nature is that when I see abuses of power, I want to expose those abuses.

Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.

There must be a very clear understanding that you cannot work for peace if you are not ready to struggle. And this is the very meaning of jihad: to manage your intention to get your inner peace when it comes to the spiritual journey. In our society, that means face injustice and hypocrisy, face the dictators, the exploiters, the oppressors if you want to free the oppressed, if you want peace based on justice.

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country's liberty and independence, or that I could have become the pliant minion of power in the oppression or the miseries of my countrymen.

I don't think I've ever been either militant or profound as an anti-Fascist. When the issue has come up, when certain things have come up, and I've been called on to express - literally, when I've been cornered, then I take a left-wing stand.

I will be harsh and stern against the aggressor, but I will be a pillar of strength for the weak.I will not calm down until I will put one cheek of a tyrant on the ground and the other under my feet, and for the poor and weak, I will put my cheek on the ground.

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.