Quotes About Oppression

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

The police become necessary in human society Only at that junction in human society Where it is split between those who have and those who ain't got

Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.

as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society

The right to ridicule is far more important to society than any right not to be ridiculed because one in my view represents openness - and the other represents oppression.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?

The black man in America is the same as the Jews were in bondage under Pharaoh. We are strangers in a land that is not ours. We are rejected by this type of modern Pharaoh or pharohnic society.

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

If I were to select a jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today, I would pick BATF [the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms].

To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.

Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.

The situation of the Salvadorian people is terrible; all their rights are violated. There is a direct violation against the human person, a violation of rights that is endemic in society.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.