Quotes About Oppression

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Open your newspaper - any day of the week - and you will find a report from somewhere in the world of someone being imprisoned, tortured or executed because his opinions or religion are unacceptable to his government.

Late 19th-century America was basically a plutocratic enterprise while people toiled in mines and died of coal dust poisoning.

Police brutality is definitely still very alive and active.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

The real evil of the Russian communist state is not communism. It is the secret police and the concentration camp.

My phone and email have been hacked, I've been arrested by the police and followed by the pro-China people or the photographers from the pro-China newspapers.

One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't.

We have seen communities cry out in pain, generation after generation, because of racism and police brutality.

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.

I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life.

The whole reason behind my album 'Free TC' is seeing all that police brutality, injustice, mass incarceration.

The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.

I just - I come from a very little town where the militarization of the police force is a very real issue.

I've had friends who have been beaten up by police officers who put phone books in their T-shirts and then beat them up, then drive off.

I'd never been in a police state. I didn't know what it was. I knew that it was, in the general way that people know that two and two is four, but it had no emotional value for me until I found myself in the middle of it.

Gandhi protested against restrictive policies. So did 'Guru.'

If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities.

'Indian policy' has now been brought down upon the American people, and the American people are the new Indians of the 21st Century.

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

The essential relationship across American history between black people and white people is one of exploitation and one of plunder. This is not, you know, necessarily about, you know, whether you're a good person or not or whether you see black people, you know, on the street, and you're willing to shake their hands and be polite.

It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.

There's nothing more political than fantasy.