Quotes About Oppression

I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

By the numbers, by all the official records, here at the confluence of history, of racism, of poverty, and economic power, this is what our lives are worth: nothing.

I don't see any kind of mirror of power, male power, that is, as a form of liberation. I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I don't believe this is truly freedom.

So long as there are nobles and commoners, the wealthy and the poor, those with power will be heard, and those without ignored. That's the world.

I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

As usurpation is the exercise of power which another has a right to, so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which nobody can have a right to.

The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.

The eagle suffers little birds to sing.

When you leave good people afraid to speak on behalf of justice, however awkwardly or insensitively, those unafraid to speak will rise to power.

As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of the hateful foreign ideology. Believe me.

Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression.

So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

Martyrs and persecutors are the same type of man. As to which is the persecutor and which the martyr, this is only a question of transient power.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.

The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear.

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

[He] saw communism for the sham that it was--a bunch of brutes who seized power in the name of the people, only to repress the very people they claimed to champion.