Quotes About Oppression

If there was an Oppression Olympics, I would win the gold medal. I'm Palestinian, Muslim, I'm female, I'm disabled, and I live in New Jersey.

The Palestinian people choose how to fight against the occupation.

The left cannot be complicit in the marginalisation of Palestinian people in the interest of fighting racism. We can, and we must, do much better than that.

The U.S. and Israel have been slaughtering the Palestinians, just slaughtering them, for years. Robbing them and slaughtering them.

Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.

Palestinians are Christian, Muslims, atheist, Buddhist - you name it. And the majority I know have nothing against Judaism and everything against Israeli oppression.

'Children of Blood and Bone' is basically 'Black Panther' with magic.

When I was younger, I had these romantic ideas about the Black Panther Party and what it meant to be a part of the civil rights movement. Then we're here, and it's dangerous. And it's dangerous to say, 'Black lives matter.'

One thing my father said was that if you find yourself in a country where you have to carry papers, you know it has a lousy government.

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.

You know what, man, that's part and parcel of being a black person in this country: everything's harder. It just is.

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

The only part of my mother's experience that still gets to me is the way she and people like her were looked down upon for asking America to be America, for asking for full and equal participation in our democracy.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.

Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk about equality for somebody else. Let's pass it on. Let's pass it on to somebody else. At the end of the day, it is all about inequality.

White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom '12 Years a Slave' documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations.

It's one thing to be groped and harassed by passers-by, but when the state gropes you, it gives a green light that you are fair game.

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind.

I was a second class citizen before the zombies and I'm a second class citizen now.

The Munich students provided a spectacular example of resistance put down by the Gestapo;

Great massacres may be commanded by tyrants but they are imposed by peoples. Without general social support, the organs of isolation and expulsion cannot even be created.

and subordinate groups are defined along ethnic and/or racial lines, and where the relationship is established and maintained to serve the interests

Indeed the unpalatable truth may well be that we are the ones who oppress the type of people that Jesus spoke with—not directly with hatred in our hearts, but indirectly through the clothes we buy, the coffee we drink, the investments we make, and the cars that we drive. By reading these words in an affluent, Western setting we can so easily domesticate the words of Jesus to the extent that they become little more than advice on how to treat a shop assistant or a passerby.