Quotes About Oppression

Something happened during the 1980s - perhaps the political climate of that time - that caused me to ask how a people would become part of a system that oppresses their own people.

Political correctness has become a straightjacket.

This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.

Political rights notwithstanding, 'freedom' rings awfully hollow when you're getting nickel-and-dimed to death in your everyday life.

The barriers for women across the world are different, depending on which kind of political system you live under.

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

It's important for me, politically, to see that theater isn't just about the powerful.

It is only in our country that you see that not just invaders but politicians have robbed us, too.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another.

Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.

The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

Poor people are too stupid to know they're just chess pieces in a game.

Any industry where there's a lot of money to be made and there are poor people involved, there's going to be some exploitation on some level.

Sri Lankans of every kind, overwhelmingly the poorest, have been bombed by one side or the other for decades.

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.

There is nothing more dangerous for a population than self-censorship by fear.

We forgot that Martin Luther King, Jr. changed his discourse toward the end of his life because he understood that the real fundamental problem of this country was not just race, it was class. It was the economical situation of not only poor blacks but also the poor white part of the population and everything in between.

The fighting back by indigenous people started in 1900: OK, they've cornered us. Our population is almost gone; they've defeated us. From there, the modern Indian rights movement started, and it was a very hard fight, with a lot of stuff going against them.

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.