Quotes About Oppression

Are you aware that non-racist, peace-licking, universal-personhood-touting communist governments slaughtered an estimated ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY MILLION PEOPLE in the 20th century? The commies beat Hitler 20-1. Their unbounded love for 'humanity' didn't seem to put a check on an even stronger love for controlling and killing human beings. So much for your murky notions of government-mandated humanism.

Politics isn't about left versus right it's about top versus bottom.

Stupid f***ing white man.

THE FOUNDATIONAL BELIEF OF THE RULING ELITE IS THAT THEY were born to rule, while the vast majority of the populace is born to slavery, in one form or another. They

Involuntary servitude was banned by the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, but nothing was done to confront the ideology of white supremacy. Slavery didn't end in 1865; it just evolved.

Prejudice may indeed be a universal human sin that all races can exhibit, but racism is more than an inevitable consequence of human nature or social accident. Rather, racism is a system of oppression for social and economic purposes. As many analysts have suggested, racism is prejudice plus power.

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

We have nothing to lose but our chains

We've been looking for a conscience of what we are. . . . We don't have enough weapons to overcome oppression and never will, although it's our duty to fight whenever our survival and our honor have to be defended. But our weapon must be the mind, each and every one's mind, which must not be dominated and have to assert itself. Our objective is not really equality, rather, it's justice, freedom, pride, dignity, good coexistence.

You know what we learned from living under the rule of Communism?" "No." "We learned to get mad.

To my way of thinking, the slavery issue is just an excuse to allow some people to do hateful things and feel righteous about it.

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth.

Thus we determined 'tis not solely the condition, but whether or not one has a choice that determines its oppression.

DneÅ¡ní Francie není zemí rovných pÃ…â"¢íležitostí, rasismus je zde krutou realitou, jako ostatnÄ› vÅ¡ude jinde na svÄ›tÄ›. Ale hulákat, že se nezmÄ›nila od dob kolonializmu, je jako poplivat památku tÄ›ch, kteÃ…â"¢í skute?nÄ› pod vládou koloniálního imperializmu trpÄ›li.

Child sexual abuse teaches us lessons about power- who has it and who doesn't. These lessons, experienced on a bodily level, transfer into the deepest levels of our conscious and subconscious being, and correspond with other oppressive systems. Widespread child sexual abuse supports a racist, sexist, classist and ableist society that attempts to train citizens into docility and unthinking acceptance of whatever the government and big business deem fit to hand out.

WE WUZ PUSHED.

How is it women have equality when it comes to taking a hit but the rest of the time they're just some guy's property?

As tempting as it is to dismiss American slavery in the pre–Civil War decades as an antiquated holdover doomed to extinction, in the early decades of the nineteenth century it was flourishing.7

White-supremacist-patriarchal-heteronormative-capitalism socializes us to aspire to "good Negro" status. It convince little Black girls from East Oakland to graduate from Howard—summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, to pledge the oldest Black sorority, to earn PhDs, to be in the "right" rooms…" - Melina Abdullah

The goal of government, you see," and the Arch Lector prodded at the air with his bony forefinger, "is to load the unhappiness onto those least able to make you suffer for it.

Government is tyranny. At its best it is dressed in pretty colours.

What has long made the U.S. military base of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean a "secret history," or the nuclear test sites that have ravaged large swaths of reservation land in the United States a "Native American problem," or consigned the Mariana Islands as outside the field of (post)colonial work? Why have these not been considered nodal points of an imperial history rather than grist for the case that the U.S. remains an imperial exception?

see the interview done by Valentine Daniel for Public Culture (24, no. 3 [Fall 2012]: 487–508).