Quotes About Oppression

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.

I was born in Decatur, was raised there, but I never in my life was permitted to vote there.

The first, and overarching, count in the new indictment is that slavery permitted one group of people to exercise unrestrained personal domination over another group of people.

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia.

Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.

Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.

Christians are being persecuted, not just in the Middle East but here in this country.

As American Jews and descendants of immigrants, we never forget where our families came from or what members of our community experienced. Because we remember, we look out for those who are freeing persecution, oppression, and danger.

The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.

I am not the least bit surprised that injustice persists. I'm also not surprised that resistance to injustice persists.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government.

To be governed ... is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled - by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so.

I had to bear witness in order to protect the future, bear witness in order to overcome the amnesia of my contemporaries.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise

Laws! We know what they are, and what they are worth! Spider webs for the rich and powerful, steel chains for the weak and poor, fishing nets in the hands of the government.

The civilised labourer who gives his best effort for a bit of bread, who builds a palace and sleeps in a stable, who weaves rich fabrics and dresses in rags, and who produces everything and does without everything, is not free.

The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.

Suponer que los balseros cubanos abandonan la isla por razones que nada tienen que ver con el régimen de Castro es otra alegre temeridad (...) Todo el mundo sabe que huyen de Castro y lo que él representa para el pueblo cubano en términos no sólo de hambre y penuria, sino también de represión política. Buscan no sólo medios de supervivencia sino otra cosa que han perdido en su isla de infortunios: la libertad.

Bad men rule by the feebleness of the ruled; and this is just; the triumph of weaklings would not be just.

To seek power by servility to the people is a disgrace, but to maintain it by terror, violence, and oppression is not a disgrace only, but an injustice.

The modern woman will note with pleasant surprise that Mary of Nazareth, while being completely devoted to the will of God, was far from being a timidly submissive woman or one whose piety was repellent to others. On the contrary, she was a woman who did not hesitate to proclaim that God vindicates the humble and the oppressed and removes the powerful people of this world from their privileged positions. (Marialis Cultus)

To force a lawyer on a defendant can only lead him to believe that the law contrives against him.

What had he been fighting when he fought the Nazis but a resurgence of archaic horrors that civilized men had once believed were safely dead? In