Quotes About Oppression

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

There has been great progress made in the world, but the fact that we're still fighting against discrimination means we've gone backwards and that's a shame.

We must create a committee to address the long-standing discrimination against black people in America.

There is so much discrimination towards women in Haryana.

I found this out over the years, that racism is a thinly veiled disguise over economics and money. It really is.

We need to dismantle the systems that were built on racism, that were built on the backs of black people.

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.

Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

I have been made stateless and hounded for my act of political expression.

The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.

America says we are a great democratic society and other people should follow our example. Well, I say we benefited from slavery, and as a nation, we never faced that because the people in power chose not to.

The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.

Nothing the European mind ever devised was meant to do anything but to facilitate the European's control over the world.

When we address the disparities facing black people, we get a lot closer to a true democracy where all lives matter.

The challenges African-Americans are facing today are rooted in the system of slavery.

I just couldn't believe that the police would fire tear gas into what had been a peaceful protest. I was running around, face burning, and nothing I saw looked like America to me.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.