Quotes About Oppression

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .

I do not think that life will change for the better without an assault on the Establishment, which goes on exploiting the wretched of the earth.

Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.

When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.

If there is no free speech, every single life has lived in vain

There are real indignities and real problems when all facets of life are controlled –when to get up, to eat, to shower-and chemicals are put inside our bodies against our will.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.

I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.

But as the world turns I learned life is hell, Livin' in the world no different from a cell...

Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

Most of us came here in chains and most of you came here to escape your chains. Your freedom was our slavery, and therein lies the bitter difference in the way we look at life.

I would rather drudge out my life on a cotton plantation, till the grave opened to give me rest, than to live with an unprincipled master and a jealous mistress.

As Papa pulls me along, I see brown shoes, brown pants legs, brown dresses, brown road. I look up at the brown buildings and the cloud of brown dust and smoke that hangs in the sky. Bright colors don't exist in the ghetto, except for the yellow stars and puddles of red blood that we carefully step around.

Bright colors don't exist in the ghetto, except for the yellow stars and puddles of red blood that we carefully step around.

Wow, so homophobic.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise.

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Peace is found when people stand for morality and reject culture. Defend freedom at all costs and at all times and peace will rule the world instead of tyrants.

When an authority is established amongst people, evil is either obvious to see or nearly impossible to see, depending entirely upon whether or not you are a part of its culture. Even though few people are able to recognize the oppression found in their own cultures, culture is still oppression.

This is a jury of your peers. They watch the same TV movies. They belong to Oprah's Book Club. You can take any monster, slap a bad dad into his past, and all of a sudden he's just another lost soul, lashing out. And you were the poor lady that got in the way. They'll argue you lacked compassion. You were the one who took things too far.

Ghetto denizens are supposed to stay put. That's what the ghetto is for. Straight Outta Compton was a jailbreak.