Quotes About Oppression

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.

more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

Time is the enemy of freedom.

A just society will appear less spectacular, and less clearly defined, than a society with totalitarian leadership, theocratic goals.

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you.

Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.

The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

The legal system has been designed by governments and corporations to protect them from the common people.

Corrupt utility companies require a corrupt legal system to protect them from their own sickened workers and the masses.

Not upholding a persons legal rights is a form of abuse. Unfortunately, USA government abuse of the general public is a normal state of affairs in many areas.

The hardest lesson of my life has come to me late. It is that a nation can win freedom without its people becoming free.

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.

Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

Everything that touches YOUR life, must be an instrument of YOUR liberation or tossed into the trash cans of HISTORY

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

Silence creates its own violence.

Had these Africans been a cruelly oppressed people, restlessly struggling to be freed from their bonds, would their masters have dared to leave them, as was done, and would they have remained as they did, continuing their usual duties, or could the proclamation of emancipation have been put on the plea of a military necessity, if the fact had been that the negroes were forced to serve, and desired only an opportunity to rise against their masters?

The Frenchman beside me had been dead since dawn. His scarred and shackled body swayed limply back and forth with every sweep of the great oar as we, his less fortunate bench-fellows, tugged and strained to keep time to the stroke.

By the time I was twenty, I had lived through a Hungarian Fascist dictatorship, German military occupation, the Nazis' "Final Solution," the siege of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, a period of chaotic democracy in the years immediately after the war, a variety of repressive Communist regimes, and a popular uprising put down at gunpoint.