Quotes About Oppression

I used to get stop-and-frisked every time I walked out of my house.

I'm always followed by two or three cars and have police around. Even walking in the park, you see them taking photos behind the bushes and trying to videotape everything.

We left the guns hidden in the car and tried walking into the polling place again, and the mob blocked us again. We didn't pursue it.

Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

Let us look at Jim Crow for the criminal he is and what he has done to one life multiplied millions of times over these United States and the world. He walks us on a tightrope from birth.

Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

I speak five languages besides mine. I went to school in Egypt because girls weren't allowed to go to school in Saudi Arabia. It's very restricting, especially for girls; we're not allowed to go anywhere.

Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.

In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.

Writing in the voice of an American slave felt like I was biting off something very large.

It's easier to blame the person with less power.

No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.

It should be self-evident that women have the right to make decisions about their own bodies. Yet throughout history, those in power - usually men - have tried to control women's bodies.

Women of color have always been kind of boxed in by the idea that the more you talk about the misogyny of your own community, the more you make that community look bad.

Whenever you go through the length and breadth of our country... you see a long face: you will see the long face of an African woman because she's black, because she's poor.

It is very difficult for me to breathe when it's hot and humid.

My only crime is breathing and existing.

Especially in Britain, people want to limit you.

Black lives are too easy to take in America because we don't want to question why people are so afraid of black and brown people to begin with. And that's what I want 'Strong Island' to do.

In America in general... I know there are a lot of parts where may be it is not that great to be brown or black.

I've seen the police brutality.

If ballots won't work, bullets will.