Quotes About Oppression

In bonded labour cases, judges would ask me why I had brought those people to the courts who stank. 'You are here precisely for them,' I would respond.

Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence.

I believe that when it comes to major foreign policy issues, many prefer to have black people seen and not heard.

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.

Prejudice is not just a personal sentiment - it can be institutional too.

I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South.

Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination.

I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

In Belarus, the government is a kind of presidential monarchy with no checks, no balances, and no rule of law.

I want to kill the president because I no like the capitalists. I have the gun in my hand, I kill kings and presidents first and next all capitalists.

The Weinstein story and the way it has shaken the roots of Hollywood has made apparent the fact that, across the world, there is a pressing need to recognize and correct the circumstances women subsist in, in order to move forward.

The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans.

I'm not pretending I can change the world, or to be an expert on social and political affairs. But I certainly have a right to say when something is wrong.

What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

Some issues just need to be dealt with - that we're still dealing with in the world, with police brutality and racism.

I was almost afraid to speak on the things I've dealt with as a woman.

We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.

In the Franco era, we couldn't defend our ideas.

It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery.

No one can live under degradation.

A right delayed is a right denied.