Quotes About Oppression

If the people show too much courage on this world, the society must choke them to break them - and by that, of course, kill them. The society breaks everyone, but after that many become stronger on that broken places. And those it cannot broke, it kills them.

for all the poor in the world against all tyranny

Yes. But we really ought to know it. How it's run. How it works. Who are the crooks and the tyrants and how to get rid of them.

But are there not many fascists in your country? There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the times comes." But you cannot destroy them until they rebel? No, Robert Jordan said. We cannot destroy them. But we can educate the people so that they will fear fascism and recognize it as it appears and combat it.

God pity the Spanish people. Any leader they have will muck them.

It was easier to live under a regime than to fight it. But

Es más fácil vivir bajo un régimen que combatirlo. Esta lucha clandestina es una cosa en la que hay muchas responsabilidades.

Was there ever a people whose leaders were as truly their enemies as this one?

no good writer can do his job working in a fascist state, which is built on lies.

lumpenproletariat.

Red swine. Mother rapers. Eaters of the milk of thy fathers.

We've only been living in these ghettos for seventy-five years or so, but the other three hundred years -- I think this is worth writing about. I think we've made tremendous sacrifices, we've shown tremendous strength. In the ghetto you see a lot of frustration; you see very little strength.

Ain't we all been hurt by slavery?

it look like the lord just work for wite folks

I didn't want to show it. Because if what he was saying was true, there wasn't a thing I could do about it. Marshall was too big. If it was just Bonbon who wanted to hurt Marcus, you might be able to prevent that. Bonbon was nothing but a poor white man, and sometimes you could go to the rich white man for help. But where did you go when it was the rich white man? You couldn't even go to the law, because he was the law. He was police, he was judge, he was jury.

Why?" I kept on asking myself. "Why? Who is this boy and why?" I knew that white men bonded colored boys out of jail for a few hundred dollars and worked them until they had gotten all their money back two and three times over. But I was trying to figure out why Marshall Hebert would do this when he already had more people than he needed. Now I knew. This little old lady had the finger on him, too.

The last thing they ever want is to see a black man stand, and think, and show that common humanity that is in us all. It would destroy their myth. They would no longer have the justification for having made us slaves and keeping us in the condition we are in. As long as none of us stand, they're safe. They're safe with me. They're safe with Reverend Ambrose. I don't want them to feel safe with you any more.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

Women with bare arms are not allowed into church, but they let naked Jews dig their own graves.

Es la dolencia de la tiranía el no confiar ni en los amigos.

Un país en donde no se comprende el arte es un país de esclavos o de robots, un país de gente desdichada, de gente que no ríe ni sonríe, un país sin espíritu; donde no hay humorismo, donde no hay risa, hay cólera y odio.

AMÉDÉE: Slavery has been abolished, my love . . . MADELEINE: I'm not your love . . . AMÉDÉE: Slaves belong to the past . . . MADELEINE: Well, I'm a modern slave, then!

It's always the voice of God they try to silence first.

Everywhere women were insulted with impunity, insulted by men. If a few of them suffered for their insolence as the overseer had, it might be no more than they deserved.