Quotes About Oppression

I want to feel the surging Of my sad people's soul Hidden by a minstrel-smile.

Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew...I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence.

I believe our society has fell into a pyramid system where there's people relegated to the bottom of that pyramid and there's people that feel like they're entitled to the top of that pyramid.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.

Domination is not that solid and global kind of domination that one person exercises over others, or one group over another, but the manifold forms of domination that can be exercised within society.

I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease.

I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.

My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

You know, it's a very sexist society, Indonesia.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

If we look at human society we see a place so difficult to live in because it is ruled by fear.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

The web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is fatally entangled in it.

Young ghetto boys thought that in this society, the good guys lost and the bad guys won.

The wage-earning class the world over are the victims of society.