Quotes About Oppression

The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.

Whomsoever I love and hate, my principle is the same. That is, the educated, the rich and the administrators should not suck the blood of the poor.

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.

I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed.

No one can ride on the back of a man unless it is bent.

No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

Trotsky once wrote: How many Aristoteles are herding swine? And how many swineherds are sitting on thrones? Class society impoverishes people, not just materially but psychologically. The lives of millions of human beings are confined to the narrowest limits. Their mental horizons are stunted. Socialism would release all the colossal potential that is being wasted by capitalism.

An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion soon degenerates. For force always attract men of low morality.

Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness.

There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.

Autoritätsdusel ist der größte Feind der Wahrheit.

Um tirano vence por seu gênio, mas seu sucessor será sempre um rematado canalha. Por esta razão, luto sem tréguas e apaixonadamente contra os sistemas dessa natureza, contra a Itália fascista de hoje e contra a Rússia soviética de hoje. A atual democracia na Europa naufraga e culpamos por esse naufrágio o desaparecimento da ideologia republicana.

Los sistemas autocráticos y opresivos degeneran muy pronto. Pues la violencia atrae a individuos de escasa moral y es ley de vida que a tiranos geniales sucedan verdaderos canallas.

there is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the ugliness of the tyranny.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

Pero no sólo los gobiernos totalitarios le temen a la lectura. En los patios de las escuelas y en los vestuarios de los clubes deportivos se intimida a los lectores tanto como en los despachos gubernamentales y en las prisiones.

Every day, somewhere in the world, someone attempts (sometimes successfully) to stifle a book... And again and again, empires fall and literature continues.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

This concern with the basic condition of freedom — the absence of physical constraint — is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison and yet not free — to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national State, or of some private interest within the nation, want him to think, feel and act.

Everybody wants power. Power in some form or other. [...] Some people want power to persecute other human beings; you expend your lust for power in persecuting words, twisting them, molding them, torturing them to obey you.