Quotes About Oppression

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

Tyranny always starts auspiciously.

but until a feminist consciousness emerges, it is easy to be blind to misogyny and its far-reaching implications

It is very difficult, when there are those people who want power over other people and will stop at nothing to get it: it is very difficult for all the people who don't want power, except just power over themselves, to find a way of resisting it.

Every day there were reports of women being raped or mutilated, sometimes even in their own homes. Nothing was done to prevent it on account of the governments being mostly men.

you could well be right. But surely the answer is for women to become more assertive and not let themselves be subjected?

The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time to listen to them. And that means staying near them, because they speak quietly and infrequently; they are afraid to speak out, they lack confidence in themselves because they have been broken and oppressed. But if we listen to them, they will bring us back to the essential.

turn on a man, humiliate him, wound his pride, crush him under foot and think no more of the matter than if he had stepped on a worm. And

Souvenons-nous de ce temps, pas révolu, où toute explosion de violence était considérée comme une contre-violence, une réponse à la violence exercée plus ou moins ouvertement par l'État, par la société, les institutions, l'ordre établi. La folie des soeurs Papin, toute folie peut-être, serait-elle la forme extrême et désespérée de la révolte?

La guerre civile, c'est exactement ça : le triomphe des salauds. On les voit sortir de partout. On s'étonne même qu'il y en ait autant et qu'on ne les remarque pas plus d'habitude.

There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared.

Lydia has a growing sense that her very humanity is under siege,

Because fear and corruption work in tandem to censor the people who might otherwise discover the clues that would point to justice. There will be no evidence, no due process, no vindication

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

C'est pour l'amour de la liberté qu'il devient « nègre » et se réduit en esclavage : pendant des années, son génie et son nom resteront invisibles dans les ténèbres de la sous-littérature

It is not the men who are in command of the bulldozers. It is the bulldozer who invented men, and then, since they failed to interest it, obliterated them with its muscular arm.

Un miros de s?rac, un miros de violen??, de necesitatea de a parveni.

Adossée à cette philosophie aujourd'hui dominante, la violence est partout. Depuis le célèbre

Immediately after their seizure of power, the Nazis expelled from the theatres all who were known for their progressive ideas.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

O Liberty Liberty how many crimes are committed in thy name