Quotes About Oppression

Luis Ponce de León, returning to his university after five years' imprisonment by the Inquisition, resumed his lectures with the words: "As we were saying yesterday…

The challenge of the politics of atypicality becomes particularly pressing within neoliberal biopolitics, particularly in that much of disability's social oppression is based on medical classifications that overindividuate bodies within categories of pathology while turning labeled subjects into generic representations of their medicalized condition group.

Our agony was the government's triumph.

There is not beneath the sky an enemy to filial affection so destructive as slavery. It had made my brothers and sisters strangers to me; it converted my mother who bore me into a myth; it shrouded my father in mystery, and left me without an intelligible beginning in the world.

Everybody in the south," wrote Douglass, "wants the privilege of whipping somebody else.

I now saw, in my situation, several points of similarity with that of the oxen. They were property, so was I; they were to be broken, so was I. Covey was to break me, I was to break them; break and be broken—such is life.

Slavery does away with fathers as it does away with families," he wrote. "The order of civilization is reversed here.

My poor mother," Douglass wrote, "like many other slave women, had many children, but NO FAMILY!"21

Remember that oppression hath the power to make even a wise man mad.

What is it with rich people thinking they can starve the poor into good behavior?

Force can overcome force, but a free society cannot long steel itself to dominate another people by sheer force.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and 'liking' it.

It is no longer left versus right. It is authoritarianism versus freedom.

power happily walks hand in hand with abuse

Those who don't know history are destined to be tyrannized by it

The road to utopia is paved with the corpses of freedom lovers

Authoritarians are frustrated authors. Frustrated authors not of books but of their own lives. They are soulless, unimaginative and nihilistic cowards afraid of their own and other peoples freedom.

Closed minds lead to the opening of concentration camps and gulags.

In the future the question will not be "what is your chosen profession?" But rather "what is your chosen oppression?

it was the smile that said, 'I know best. I know better than you.' The smile that said, 'I'm safe here and you're not.' The smile that said, 'I have a dick, so I win.

I hate all the white people. ... You are thieves and liars. You have taken away our land and made us outcasts.

the mind is a tyrant

The idea of freedom is a piece of dry bread thrown to people so that they can break their teeth with it.

No matter how safe and beautiful it is, a cage is still a cage.