Quotes About Oppression

This was the kind of thing Oswald Mosley and his British Fascists wanted—a country in which the rule of law was replaced by bullying and beating.

A family of Jews were showing their tickets at the head of the gangplank. All Jews wanted to go to America, in Grigori's experience. They had even more reason than he did. In Russia there were laws forbidding them to own land, to enter the civil service, to be army officers, and countless other prohibitions. They could not live where they liked, and there were quotas limiting the number who could go to universities. It was a miracle any of them made a living.

Our great stumbling block, in our stride toward freedom, is not the White Citizens' Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner. It's the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice;

In 1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?

They were taught about democracy in London, not about tyranny in Cairo.

1872 the anarchist leader Mikhail Bakunin warned Karl Marx that Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. After what has happened in Russia, can you honestly say Bakunin was wrong?

Cuántos años pueden algunas personas vivir, antes de que se les permita ser libres?»

Vivimos en una tiranía brutal [… ] Tenemos que hacer algo para mantener viva la esperanza.

Así que primero impides que consiga trabajo y luego me amenazas con meterme en la cárcel por no tenerlo. Supongo que me enviarán a un campo de trabajo, ¿verdad? Entonces sí que estaría empleada, solo que no me pagarían. Me encanta el comunismo, ¡es tan lógico! ¿Por qué habrá gente tan desesperada por escapar de él, me pregunto yo?

el mayor problema del comunismo era que el poder absoluto del partido siempre sofocaba el cambio. El

the importance of a free press, but it seemed to her that the lack of critical newspapers made it much easier for other forms of oppression to flourish.

La vida de una mujer era una casa con las puertas cerradas: no podía formarse como aprendiz ni podía estudiar en la universidad; no podía ser sacerdote ni médico, ni tampoco disparar con un arco

Fascists. They're both evil.

They're just cattle," Bacon said if anyone complained; but cattle did not sing laments.

The arbitrary power of wicked men

In Germany the police had supported the Nazis and sided with the Brownshirts. Would they do the same here? Surely

They may compel their child to work in the mine until he reaches the age of twenty-one, but' Ã¢â'¬Âââ'¬â€Mack paused dramatically and read the next bit very slowly—" Ã¢â'¬Ëœbut then he will be free to leave!

hemos ganado —se dijo—. Somos los vencedores. El pueblo ha derrocado a sus opresores.»

In America in 1961, while the police looked on, white racists could attack civil rights protestors, break their bones, try to burn them to death – and get away with it.

We shouldn't be talking of politics. Women ought to leave such matters to their husbands.

Han aplastado a la nobleza. —Pero también a la prensa que estaba en su contra.

Our great stumbling block, in our stride toward freedom, is not the White Citizens' Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner. It's the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who constantly says, like Bobby Kennedy: 'I agree with the goal you seek, but I cannot condone your methods.' He paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom

Los verdaderos fascistas quieren aniquilar a todos sus enemigos y luego crear una sociedad radicalmente nueva.

he had hated authoritarian religion