Oprimen Quotes & Sayings

None of us, acting alone, can achieve the success. — Nelson Mandela

For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance. — Slavoj Zizek

I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more. — Florence Welch

If you understand liberals at all, you know that they'll never agree to market-based solutions for ideological reasons and because an expanding dependency class is their most essential power source. — David Limbaugh

A slut is someone, usually a woman, who's stepped outside of the very narrow lane that good girls are supposed to stay within. Sluts are loud. We're messy. We don't behave. In fact, the original definition of "slut" meant "untidy woman." But since we live in a world that relies on women to be tidy in all ways, to be quiet and obedient and agreeable and available (but never aggressive), those of us who color outside of the lines get called sluts. And that word is meant to keep us in line. — Jaclyn Friedman

I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God. — Andrew Sullivan

So much of our future lies in preserving our past. — Peter Westbrook

I've flown out of character so many times. In that sense I've been lucky, because I've been given the liberty to do just about anything I've wanted to do in my lifetime. — June Carter Cash

In all my old school pictures I was always the one standing alone in the back with my hair in my face. — Rachel Hawkins

The saying 'flattery gets you everywhere' appalls me. If you're going to pay someone a compliment make sure it's 100% genuine or not at all.-Flattery is deception and who wants to be lied to? — Miya Yamanouchi

When you learn to say 'NO', you activate the faculty of 'CHOICE' in your mind ! Some of the times you are the chosen one..at other times you CHOOSE for yourself..and saying NO is a sign that one has graduated into becoming a wise CHOICEMAKER ...... — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it? — Dave Mustaine

This was my first conscious barter. Trading pain for the closest vice, I slipped into a knowing numbness. Prayer seemed an impotent remedy — Seth Haines

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior, — Beryl Bainbridge