Quotes About Oppression

History proves that the white man is a devil.

Authority is never without hate.

Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.

What other creatures are bred so exquisitely and purposefully for mistreatment as women are?

Surely, of all creatures that have life and will, we women are the most wretched. When, for an extravagant sum, we have bought a husband, we must then accept him as possessor of our body.

power and alliance for them, slavery and conquest over us.

Praise to God! Bless ye the Tyrant's fall!

we women are the most pathetic. First of all, we have to buy a husband. Spend vast amounts of money, just to get a master for our body – to add insult to injury.

for if this shall be, and they ratify your words, I no longer know this Athens as free.

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, A herb most bruised is woman.

When our oppressor is all-powerful, where shall we fly for justice?

We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody.

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves…

These men must die to make a world for Hooper; they were the aborigines, vermin by right of law, to be shot at leisure so that things might be safe for the travelling salesmen.

We look back already to the time of the persecution as though it were the heroic age, but have you ever thought how awfully few martyrs there were, compared with how many there ought to have been?

Let us give thanks to our father, leader, and creator for our happy lives!" "Stankovskaya, to hear your anti-Soviet talk, one can hardly believe that you were a member of a municipal committee!" "Yes, and to hear you people one can hardly believe that you're not on the prison staff. Why don't you call the guards now and report this conversation? You might get some clean underwear as a reward, and then you wouldn't stink so much.

Os americanos], conquanto se mostrem dispostos, e até ansiosos, por ser escravos, sempre se recusaram, obstinadamente, a ser camponeses.

It was the same feeling that had oppressed her at the hotel—accustomed to seeing the starkest grotesqueries of a continent heavily underlined as comedy or tragedy, untrained to the task of separating out the essential for herself, she now began to feel that French life was empty and stale.

Ci sono soltanto perseguitati e persecutori, affaccendati e stanchi.

Churches were shut down and Stanislaw's father and three uncles had been sent to prison camps for speaking out.

In an almost unthinkable reversal of a global pattern, almost every Arab country today is less free than it was forty years ago. There are few places in the world about which one can say that.

terrorism is the weapon of the weak

The tragedy for the millions of new lower-caste voters is that their representatives, for whom they dutifully vote en masse, have looted the public coffers and become immensely rich and powerful while mouthing slogans about the oppression of their people.