Quotes By Catogory
“When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge – every adversity – contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“When opportunity presents itself, don’t be afraid to go after it.”
―Eddie Kennison
“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.”
―John F. Kennedy
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work”.
―Thomas A. Edison
“Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity”.
―H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
―Albert Einstein
“Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward.”
―Hillary Clinton
“Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.”
―Emily Dickinson
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
―Albert Einstein
“Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities.”
―Roy T. Bennett
“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”
―Richard Branson
“Every twist and turn in life is an opportunity to learn something new about yourself, your interests, your talents, and how to set and then achieve goals.”
―Jameela Jamil
“Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise”.
―Kobe Bryant
“I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.”
–John D. Rockefeller
“In a world that’s changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
–Mark Zuckerberg
“Decide what you want, and then act as if it were impossible to fail.”
–Brian Tracy
“Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world”.
―Dolores Huerta
“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.”
―Napoleon Hill
“If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade”.
―Tom Peters
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently”.
―Henry Ford
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before”.
―Rahm Emanuel
“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.”
―Boris Pasternak
“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more”.
―Jonas Salk
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”.
―Winston Churchill
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death”.
―James F. Byrnes
“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage”.
―Victor Kiam
“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door”.
―Milton Berle
“Expect change. Analyse the landscape. Take the opportunities. Stop being the chess piece; become the player. It’s your move.”
–Tony Robbins
“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.”
–John D. Rockefeller
“If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later.”
―Richard Branson
“There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.”
―Douglas MacArthur
“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People”.
―Eugene Victor Debs
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
―Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary
“That’s libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”
―Kim Stanley Robinson
“When our thoughts are healthy, we make decisions that catalyse transformation and cut across generations. But when our thoughts are unhealthy, we believe that we can entice the electorate by offering carrots to them to achieve our end”.
―glonins.com
“Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like”.
―Veronica Roth, Insurgent
“I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws, conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws”.
Martin Luther King Jr. (-Letter from Birmingham Jail.)
“Violence is initiated by those who oppress, who exploit, who fail to recognize others as persons—not by those who are oppressed, exploited, and unrecognised.”
―Paulo Freire
“Segregation gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority.”
―Martin Luther King Jr.
“Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realise that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!”
―J.K. Rowling
“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed”.
―Steven Biko
“Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect.”
―Frantz Fanon
“By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?”
—Walter Rodney
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed”.
―Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organised conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
―Frederick Douglass
“Black people are the only ones told to love our oppressors. I hate that. We’ve been loving our oppressors for a long time, and nothing has changed – that love has to be reciprocated”.
―Charlamagne Tha God
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centres of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
―Robert F. Kennedy
“Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.”
―Alan Moore
“The idea that the Internet favours the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside”.
―Evgeny Morozov
“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.”
―Booker T. Washington
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
―Anne Bradstreet
“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people–they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.”
―Paulo Freire
“Because to take away a man’s freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.”
―Madeline L’Engle
“Two children of the same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It’s a conflict between two victims”.
―Amos Oz
“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.”
―Gore Vidal
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
―Karl Marx
“If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one’s mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters”.
―Steven Biko
“What people don’t know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system”.
―Hugh Masekela
“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
―Aung San Suu Kyi
“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
―Nelson Mandela
“When you’re talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it’s the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us”.
―Lakeith Stanfield
“There isn’t a religion on earth that isn’t damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more than half of the human race – women. They are all oppressors of women”.
―Susan Powter
“Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. You don’t need anything else.”
―Malcolm X
“When we identify where our privilege intersects with somebody else’s oppression, we’ll find our opportunities to make real change.”
―Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race
“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed”
―Simone de Beauvoir
“Tread very carefully where injustice is concerned, because it takes very little for the oppressed to become the new oppressors.”
―Abhijit Naskar
“In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the humblest terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.”
―Thomas Jefferson
“I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the system of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don’t think it will be based on the colour of the skin…”
―Malcolm X
“Wherever the real power in a government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.”
―James Madison
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
―Bernard M. Baruch
“Quote of the month”
“Until our mindset changes, nothing will ever change. It’s easy to unshackle the physical chains of slavery, than that of the chains of mental slavery”
BSO Kpechi
Inspirational Speaker
