Quotes About Oppression

Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit.

The chance to profit from corruption is why many authoritarian leaders seize and cling to power.

A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from Europe, but it's necessarily a construct of oppression.

When they kept you out it was because you were black; when they let you in, it is because you are black. That's progress?

Governments oppress people, but so do mobs. You need to avoid both to make progress.

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'

Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.

As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the middle-grade science fiction novel that became 'The Boy at the End of the World,' it seemed only natural to build the story around a dark vision of the future. In my book, civilization has nearly destroyed itself.

'Dystopian,' by definition, promises a darker story.

The idea that the country should be led by white men goes back to antebellum slaveholders, who argued that the world was naturally divided between working drudges and elite leaders, who directed their workers and used the wealth the workers produced to promote progress.

They make revolutionary propaganda because they know the privileged class can never be overturned peacefully.

With a corset on, you can't breathe properly.

A lot of prophets have gone to jail.

The morality of a society is not judged by the behaviour of an oppressed class but by the rules and laws made by the state, which either protect or exploit an already depressed section of society.

Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day.

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.

Nothing exasperates the spirit in man more than power which seems unconquerable and which makes impotent all protest.

When I look at American history, I see how it has been driven by resistance and protest against a system that has been oppressive to not just Black people but to women, to members of the LGBTQ community.

Minorities, Dalits, farmers, students, writers - all have faced the brunt of the Narendra Modi government and risen in protest.

George W. Bush is always protesting that he has the fate of the world in mind and bangs on about the 'freedom-loving peoples' he's seeking to protect. I'd love to meet a freedom-hating people.

We been in the streets protesting for years about police brutality.

The proud fight against colonialism is one that should be consigned to history.

History has proved that dictators can't last forever.