Quotes About Oppression

If Marx was alive during the Stalinist period, he'd be first to be in the gulag.

It's hard for me to believe that the KKK still exists, especially knowing all my ancestors have been through. I feel like the history and meaning of all we have been through has been trashed.

I don't believe in reverse racism. I really don't.

It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

The criminal justice system is rigged against African Americans.

Why do we have to have another riot?

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.

Ceausescu was mad, and he made half of Romania mad. I'm mad because of him.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

The people are really afraid of what's going on in Russia; they are suffering with fear, sitting at home, doors locked, because they are afraid of their government.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

Look at the world, all the suffering... Being under house arrest is the least I can sacrifice.

The sad truth of our country is that Indian women don't get a moment of rest.

The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.

What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one's own culture.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don't share that belief.

There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people.

When the forces are aligning against hybridity, it harms everyone, as we are all migrants. Growing up in Pakistan, I know just how oppressive that kind of puritanical mindset can be.

In Pakistan, the right to go to school is not a given. In the more rural areas, a girl is born, married off as early as 9 years old, and basically lives life under the control of men.

Women politicians in Pakistan have to deal with severe sexual harassment within their own parties and from their opponents.