O, though oft oppressed and lonely,
All my fears are laid aside,
If I but remember only
Such as these have lived and died! [ Longfellow ]
To heal divisions, to relieve the oppressed.
In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd. [ Homer ]
Where blended lie the oppressor and the oppressed. [ Pope ]
A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? [ William Shakespeare ]
We're not ourselves when Nature, being oppressed, commands the mind to suffer with the body. [ William Shakespeare ]
Love is eternally awake, never tired with labour, nor oppressed with affliction, nor discouraged by fear. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
That philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathise with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed. [ Lowell ]
The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we bad been endowed with. [ Horace ]
Everywhere the strong have made the laws and oppressed the weak; and, if they have sometimes consulted the interests of society, they have always forgotten those of humanity. [ Turgot ]
Don Quixote is, after all, the defender of the oppressed, the champion of lost causes, and the man of noble aberrations. Woe to the centuries without Don Quixotes! Nothing remains to them but Sancho Panzas. [ A. de Gasparin ]
When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon those whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious with out pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness. [ Dr. Johnson ]
This is my seventieth birthday, and I wonder if you all rise to the size of that proposition, realizing all the significance of that phrase, seventieth birthday. The seventieth birthday! It is the time of life when you arrive at a new and awful dignity; when you may throw aside the decent reserves which have oppressed you for a generation and stand unafraid and unabashed upon your seven-terraced summit and look down and teach--unrebuked. You can tell the world how you got there. It is what they all do. You shall never get tired of telling by what delicate arts and deep moralities you climbed up to that great place. You will explain the process and dwell on the particulars with senile rapture. I have been anxious to explain my own system this long time, and now at last I have the right. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]