Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.
Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
I've always hated oppression.
The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.
The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.