Quotes About Oppression

Traders kept careful records of their booty. One surviving inventory from this region lists "68 head" of slaves by name, physical defects, and cash value, starting with the men, who were worth the most money, and ending with: "Child, name unknown as she is dying and cannot speak, male without value, and a small girl Callenbo, no value because she is dying; one small girl Cantunbe, no value because she is dying.

When you have only ever experienced privilege, equality feels like oppression.

When all you've ever known is privilege, equality feels like oppression.

Anti-Semitism is one of the only forms of racial bigotry that punches upwards to perceived power

Siyasi ve ekonomik özgürlükler azald?kça, cinsel özgürlük, dengelenircesine artma eÄŸilimi gösterir. UyuÅŸturucu, filmler ve radyonun etkisiyle gündüz düÅŸleri kurma özgürlüÄŸüne ek olarak cinsellik, tebaas?n?, yazg?lar? olan köleliÄŸe raz? etmede yard?mc? olur.

Death is softer by far than tyranny.

Death is a softer thing by far than tyranny.

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant

The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor intends to be unjust.

You know, I've been thinking: all the women in the books you like -- Sartre and Camus and all that -- they don't really exist. Not as people. They're only there to wait for the men. To love them and be loved back or not -- mostly not; to be beaten up or killed; to appear as a face on the wall of Meurseault's cell--

Life was good back then, in the crappy, oppressive way life is good for fourteen year olds, which is to say, it completely sucked but seems pretty good in the obscuring glare of nostalgia.

the system glorified by John of Salisbury and John Fortescue, was unjust in a thousand all too obvious ways, but it offered those on the lowest rungs one notable freedom: the freedom not to have to take the achievements of quite so many people in society as reference points—and so find themselves severely wanting in status and importance as a result.

I did not know this word, "lynching," but when I asked Jade Moon about it she explained, "As I understand, it refers to a custom in the American South, where white men may punish the darker peoples with impunity by hanging them from trees. I was speechless. How could such barbarity exist in a land of freedom like America? What country was this, in which I had been living all these years?

Long-established totalitarian governments fear any kind of free expression. A sculpture can be a manifesto, a manuscripted adventure can double as a cry for rebellion.

if we are going to be genuinely Christlike, we will not be conformists! For one, our Lord can hardly be called a conformist. He disturbed the status quo, railed against injustice and lack of mercy, hung out with highly questionable people, and fomented a revolution that called for the overthrow of religious oppression.

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to uncover the ones who, quite legally, have brought about her poverty?

Los símbolos tiene poder, Netley... Poder suficiente como para retorcerle el estómago incluso a alguien como tú... O como para relegar a la mitad de este planeta a la esclavitud.

They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

It was always a bad sign when better-off types drew comparisons between unsightly ghetto populations and some animal or other, most especially those species that we had, reluctantly, to poison periodically. Why didn't people keep their lame excuses to themselves? Mick

You have encouraged these malicious incompetents, who have made your working life life a shambles. You have accepted without question their senseless orders.

Ayr?ca köle rolü için yerli halktan bir sürü siyahi insan? iÅŸe alm??lar. Bural? olmayanlar?n o tad? vermediÄŸini düÅŸünmüÅŸler. Yani zaman?nda özgürlüÄŸüne kavuÅŸan kölelerin torunlar? ÅŸimdi tekrar köle olarak güzel para kazan?yor. Güler misin aÄŸlar m?s?n?

Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.