We, the National Football League, condemn racism and the systematic oppression of black people. – Roger Goodell
Without black players there would be no National Football League. And the protests around the country are emblematic of the centuries of silence inequality and oppression of black players, coaches, fans and staff. – Roger Goodell
The nation that sent a man to the moon and defeated German and Soviet oppression will not be content to take second place to the imperialists in Beijing. – Josh Hawley
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution. – George Haven Putnam
Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I’m always in Africa… And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere. – Harry Belafonte
No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigue, to cracks, which you are the likelier to discover the longer your term. – Joseph Brodsky
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. – James Madison
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed. – John Henrik Clarke
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. – Joseph Addison
Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression. – James K. Polk
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression. – Jonathan Sacks
Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems. – Alva Myrdal
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody’s business to interfere when they see it. – Anna Sewell
We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people. – Alexander Mackenzie
Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there. – Emily Saliers
Shakespeare shows you what it is possible to do in English as a writer – but also shows you that you might as well give up. As it’s all been done before and hundreds of years ago. So I have had that long-standing relationship of oppression and inspiration. – Chris Adrian
Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many. – Eugene Jarecki
Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression. – Fatos Nano
How clear can I put this? I am not denying female oppression; I am trying to stop it by calling for a more fluid masculinity. – Matt Haig
The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal. – Nawal El Saadawi
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive. – Florynce Kennedy
