Quotes About Oppression

Em todos os cantos os soldados topavam com japoneses imobilizados por cordas, sendo brutalmente espancados

As principais personalidades de Tupã pedem ao governo: campo de concentração e pena de morte para os japoneses.

I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a little bit of calm along with a bit of bread, not to feel oppressed by the knowledge that I exist, not to demand anything from others, and not to have others demand anything from me - this was denied me, like the spare change we might deny a beggar not because we're mean-hearted but because we don't feel like unbuttoning our coat.

Someone who has never known constraint can have no concept of freedom.

One who has never lived under constraints doesn't know what freedom is.

Aquela corja tinha nascido para escravos. Queriam ser anarquistas à custa alheia. Queriam a liberdade, logo que fossem os outros que lha arranjassem, logo que lhe fosse dada como um rei dá um título! Quase todos eles são assim, os grandes lacaios!

Tobacco Shop') and compares his thinking to 'an overturned bucket' (in a poem dated 16 August 1934). If Soares thinks that 'Nothing is more oppressive than the affection of others' (Text 348), a Ricardo Reis ode (dated 1 November 1930) maintains that 'The same love by which we're loved/Oppresses us with its wanting.

Quero dos deuses só que me não lembrem. Serei livre — sem dita nem desdita, Como o vento que é a vida Do ar que não é nada O ódio e o amor iguais nos buscam; ambos, Cada um com seu modo nos oprimem. A quem deuses concedem Nada, tem liberdade

Sosyalizmin ve komünizmin hedefi emekçiyi yükseltmek deÄŸil, burjuvay? indirmektir. Emekçi ise ayn? noktada, hatta söylediÄŸim gibi, daha kötü noktada kal?r. Burjuvan?n yitirdiÄŸi ÅŸeyden yararlanan asla emekçi deÄŸildir. AnarÅŸizm ise tersine bir sevgi rejimidir, sevilen insanlara bask? uygulamaya çal???lmaz.

Art is Cinderella, who stayed at home because that's how it had to be.

I consider myself fortunate for no longer having family, as it relieves me of the obligation to love someone, which I would surely find oppressive.

Quien nunca ha vivido oprimido no siente la libertad.

Whenever I've tried to free my life from a set of the circumstances that continually oppress it, I've been instantly surrounded by other circumstances of the same order, as if the inscrutable web of creation were irrevocably at odds with me. I yank from my neck a hand that was choking me, and I see that my own hand is tied to a noose that fell around my neck when I freed it from the stranger's hand. When I gingerly remove the noose, it's with my own hands that I nearly strangle myself.

No solo quien nos odia o nos envidia nos limita y oprime; quien nos ama no menos nos limita.

So many times, so many, like now, it has oppressed me to feel myself feel – to feel anguish just because it's a feeling, restlessness because I'm here, nostalgia for something I've never known, the sunset of all emotions, myself yellowing, subdued to grey sadness in my external selfawareness.

Solitude devastates me, company oppresses me.

La artificialidad es la manera de disfrutar la naturalidad. Lo que he disfrutado de estos campos vastos, lo he disfrutado porque no vivo aquí. No siente la libertad quien nunca se ha visto oprimido.

Se o que há de lixo moral e mental em todos os cérebros pudesse ser varrido e reunido, e com ele se formar uma figura gigantesca, tal seria a figura do comunismo, inimigo supremo da liberdade e da humanidade.

Humanity can learn from those who have broken their chains. Those who have chained humanity for centuries cannot teach humanity anything.

La democracia, además, solo existirá en América cuando los pueblos sean realmente libres para escoger, cuando los humildes no estén reducidos —por el hambre, la desigualdad social, el analfabetismo y los sistemas jurídicos—

This may be the last stage of imperialism–having appropriated everything else from its colonies, the dead empire appropriates the pain of those it has oppressed.

Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.

Usually by the time she had fallen asleep all the classes of people were moiling and roiling around in her head, and she would dream they were all crammed in together in a box car, being ridden off to be put in a gas oven.

It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.