Quotes About Oppression

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

We, as black people, we have a lot of crooks.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

People were so cruel because of the way I existed.

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

There is always the person who's got to stand on the sandcastle, they must crush it.

In order to cry out for my black brothers, I had to hate the police.

The Cuban people do not live in freedom.

There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.

For the Left, victimhood has long carried social currency.

I believe our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name.

No, the czar did not want us in the schools.

Because of how I walk and I talk, I get abuse on a daily basis.

With abolition, it's necessary to destroy systems of oppression. But it's equally necessary to put at the forefront our conversations about creation. When we fight for justice, what exactly do we want for our communities?

Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part of the systems.

The people in Iraq lived essentially good lives. They had brilliant health and education systems. Saddam actually created an incredible infrastructure in a very difficult country, but they were a Mafia family. If you said anything against that regime or that family you would be killed instantly.

The poor don't live in functional market economies as the rest of us do, but in political economies where corruption and broken systems extend from local government to moneylenders.

I spent my life navigating systems built upon me - a black child in America - not making it out.

What is it going to take to dismantle the systems that keep me from being able to live well and that keep me and so many other people from being able to access the things that we need and deserve?

The slaves had food stamps, too. It was called 'scraps from Massa's table.'

Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.

No insurrection bred out of desperation can be quelled by strong-arm tactics.

Reading 'Animal Farm' set me free from the dictatorship in my head. I could see all the tactics used by the regime to control us - they were all in that book.

I grew up in Taiwan, which was a military dictatorship.