Oppression quotes

Discover powerful quotes that shed light on the dark realities of oppression, inspiring us to rise above, fight injustice, and champion equality.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

- Elie Wiesel

One person of integrity can make a difference.

- Elie Wiesel

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

- Elie Wiesel

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

- Elie Wiesel

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

- Saddam Hussein

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

- Elie Wiesel

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

- Elie Wiesel

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

- Elie Wiesel

I am not guilty, I am innocent.

- Saddam Hussein

Those who fight in God's cause will be victorious.

- Saddam Hussein

Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.

- Saddam Hussein

Who are you and what are you?... I need to know.

- Saddam Hussein

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

- Elie Wiesel

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

- Elie Wiesel

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

- Elie Wiesel

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

- Elie Wiesel

Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.

- Saddam Hussein

You know me... If you are Iraqi, you know me.

- Saddam Hussein

I said I'm the president of Iraq... I did not say deposed.

- Saddam Hussein