Quotes About Oppression

The entire trend of development is towards abolition of coercive domination of one part of society over another.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.

Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

In an oppressive society if a group stands up to take care of the lambs, it automatically stands up against the wolves.

The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.

We live in a very gynophobic society

In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom. –The Grand Inquisitor

The real problem is that the way that power is given out in our society pits us against each other.

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled?

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.

In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist.

When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom.

I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom.