Quotes About Oppression

If the Chinese government gets carried away with denying basic rights, then there will be a pushback from within.

Saddam was a bad guy. Assad's a bad guy. Nobody's denying that.

I know that when we deprive communities of their voice, it can be dangerous.

There is so much corruption on so many levels of democracy that the common man is deprived of the basic rights.

If anything is life-changing, being the descendant of a slave is.

I crossed the Gobi desert to be free and now I thought I live in a country where I can say what I believe and have my freedom to think. However, now I have to constantly censor my speech because in the name off a 'safe place.'

When we complain to Egypt's Western allies about whichever autocrat is in power, we are asked, 'But who is the alternative?' It is a question designed to frustrate.

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.

Bill Clinton championed discriminatory laws against formerly incarcerated people that have kept millions of Americans locked in a cycle of poverty and desperation.

Despotism is a long crime.

The nature of racism is that it grinds down the soul of the man more finely than it does the soul of the woman. When you want to conquer a people or subject it, you destroy the male component.

Will you stand by it now, or will you let the Shylocks come and have their way? It is for you to determine.

Women are so policed and devalued and dehumanized when it comes to the work they do.

I want to fight the McCarthyist state that's developing in this country so my kids won't live in a world where people are afraid to speak out.

White America don't get to dictate how me and Shaq talk to each other.

Every anarchist is a baffled dictator.

I suppose anyone who calls a dictator a dictator is 'dangerous' and 'imbalanced.'

Of course Castro was Cuba's longest serving president. After all, he was a dictator.

Corruption empowers and enriches dictators.

This is how dictatorships always behave: they deny reality; they deny crises.

My duty is to call for free elections because there is an abuse of power, and we live in a dictatorship.

Throughout my entire life, I have lived in the shadow of the dictatorship. It denied me safety and security.

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

I grew up in a dictatorship in a very Catholic country.