Targets Of Oppression Quotes & Sayings

It's a symbol, Helvar. If your god is so delicate, maybe you should get a new one. Let's get out of here. — Leigh Bardugo

Always bear in mind that boys are naturally wiser than you. Regard them as intellectual beings, who have access to certain sources of knowledge of which you are deprived, and seek to derive all the benefit you can from their peculiar attainments and experience. — John Farrar

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another. — Tim Wise

Six is old enough to know how to pick a lock, but not old enough to know that you don't want to be picking that lock. — Sheila Wray Gregoire

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Humanity had always trafficked in oppression. Before the corporate marketing department got ahold of it, it was called conquest. Now it was regional development. Vikings and Mongols were big on revenue targets, too - but Leland had dispensed with all the tedious invading, and had taken a page out of the Roman playbook by hiring the locals to enslave each other as franchisees. — Daniel Suarez

Harvie Conn, who related this story in one of his books, added that gospel preaching that targets some sins but not the sins of oppression cannot possibly work among the overwhelming majority of people in the world, poor peasants and workers. — Timothy Keller

The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing. — Gloria Gaither