Quotes About Oppression

To stop oppression, you will first end the tyranny of the oppressors.

Be courageous. Always be a voice for those who are oppressed.

Freedom from a tyrant is easy, but freedom from societal conformity is difficult.

Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Colonialists stole not only the lands of African people and renamed them. They stole also their knowledge, so that they would know nothing about themselves

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation

Querida hermana: suponéis que Brasil es un trono de oro, pero es un yugo de hierro.»

La gente no sabe lo duro que es tener miedo al hombre con quien vives. Es lo peor de todo. Entras en tu casa como si entrases en la guarida de un lobo y respiras si él no está. Y cuando viene, rezas para que no haya bebido, no haya perdido en el juego y venga tranquilo. No sabes qué hacer ni adónde ir, el miedo te paraliza el cuerpo y la mente. Solo eres miedo.

Quba natti qabuu mitti Qabsoo Oromootiif jecha qawweelle yoo natti qaban Daqiqaa tokkofuu ijaa hin limsadhu

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

En prison on ferme plus de portes qu'on n'en ouvre.

on leur a coupé le bout de la langue pour qu'ils ne puissent plus chanter le cantique.

In the beginning, deep in the papyrus, we hoped help would come. But God Himself showed that He had forgotten us, so all the more reason for the Whites to do the same.