No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Joseph Addison
When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression.
Maria Alyokhina
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.
Hosea Ballou
All oppression creates a state of war.
Simone de Beauvoir
Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.
Harry Belafonte
One writes fables in periods of oppression.
Italo Calvino
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
John Henrik Clarke
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
Confucius
Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
Bryan Cranston
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.
Richard Dawkins