Quotes About Oppression

Ya no había representantes elegidos democráticamente, todos los diputados del Reichstag eran nazis. Tampoco había auténticos periodistas, solo aduladores serviles.

Un americano blanco puede orbitar alrededor de la Tierra, pero un americano negro no puede entrar en un lavabo.»

y el único delito que han cometido es pedir pan!

Llevaba años hablando de desafiar a la autoridad del régimen, pero ese día lo estaba haciendo realidad

You can't tell what a tyrant is going to do," she said. "Uncertainty is one of their weapons. I've lived under the Nazis as well as the Communists. They're depressingly similar.

This was worse than a Fascist march: it was a Fascist march with police authority. What kind of message did that send to the Jews of the East End?

RevoluÈ›iile sunt mereu violente, fiindc? oamenii vor ucide întotdeauna ca s? nu piard? puterea. Cu toate astea, ele au loc deoarece vor exista mereu oameni care îÈ™i vor închina vieÈ›ile cauzei libert??ii.i.

Es peligroso para un pobre intentar defender sus derechos.

Es imposible saber lo que hará un tirano —sentenció—. La incertidumbre es una de sus armas. He vivido en la Alemania de los nazis y en la de los comunistas, y son tristemente parecidas.

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

They claimed popular support, but banned all opposition. Lloyd

peaceful men and women whose only crime is to disagree with the government. Does this sound fantastic to you, unlikely, something that could never happen? Well, they used exactly those tactics in Germany—and it worked.

Y admite que deberá discriminar a los árabes en favor de los judíos, pero da la casualidad de que el fascismo es la combinación del militarismo y el racismo, precisamente aquello contra lo que usted lucha.

One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest.

No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes- people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst.

They're out there. First line of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Ha az emberrel kibasznak, akkor igenis joga van ordítani. És mivelünk kibasztak!

The walls are white as the white suits, polished clean as a refrigerator door, and the black face and hands seem to float against it like a ghost.

Ratched shall line us all against the wall, where we'll face the terrible maw of a muzzle-loading shotgun which she has loaded with Miltowns! Thorazines! Libriums! Stelazines! And with a wave of her sword, blooie! Tranquilize all of us completely out of existence.

one flew east, one flew west, One flew over the cuckoo's nest. —Children's folk rhyme

I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes—people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst.

I still had my own notions. How McMurphy was a giant come out of the sky to save us from the combine that was networking the land with copper wire and crystal

No. No, listen. They don't bust you that way; they work on you ways you can't fight! They put things in! They install things. They start as quick as they see you're gonna be big and go to working and installing their filthy machinery when you're little, and keep on and on and on till you're fixed!

If you think this ethnocentric stage—with its tendencies toward racism, sexism/patriarchy, misogyny, mega-tribal dominance, oppression, and fundamentalist religion—sounds a bit like hardcore far-Right Republicans, and that it starts to push into recognized Trump territory, you'd be right.