Quotes About Oppression

I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment, said Tempest with a bitter smile. Law and custom I know nothing of, public opinion I despise, and shame and fear I defy, for everyone has a right to be happy in their own way.

Women have been called queens a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

I don't like favors, they oppress and make me feel like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.

There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all...

No puedo conformarme con haber nacido mujer, y ahora más que nunca, pues quisiera luchar al lado de papá y sin embargo me veo obligada a permanecer en casa haciendo calceta como una vieja.

haunted by image after image. People kneeling, beaten. People singing, beaten. Mothers, beaten. Fathers, beaten. Young, beaten. Old, knocked down or beaten. If you approached the police, beaten. If you ran away, kettled, then beaten. Pollux had known good people, seen lives saved by his fellow patrol officers. So who was doing the beating? The uniforms or those inside them? How was it that protests against police violence showed how violent police really

White people covered the earth like lice.

I think that we Americans, at least in the Southern col[onie]s, cannot contend with a good grace for liberty until we shall have enfranchised our slaves

if a white man kills a black, he cannot be tried for his life for the murder. . . . If a negro strikes a white man, he is punished with the loss of his hand and, if he should draw blood, with death.

Those who refuse will be crushed.

Hamilton, using the pen name "Civis" in a newspaper piece of February 23, 1791, penned the following telling sarcasm to Madison and Jefferson: "As to the negroes, you must be tender upon that subject. . . . Who talk most about liberty and equality . . . ? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?

Give all power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all power to the few, they will oppress the many.

If the sword of oppression be permitted to lop off one limb without opposition, reiterated strokes will soon dismember the whole body.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. Those who use it and those who endure it are turned to stone… a soul which has entered the province of force will not escape this except by a miracle.

You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty

Of all the millions of refugees we've seen in the modern world, their flight is always away from, not toward, the Communist world.

Throughout my life, I guess there's been one thing that's troubled me more than any other: the abuse of people and the theft of their democratic rights, whether by a totalitarian government, an employer, or anyone else. I probably got it from my father; Jack never bristled more than when he thought working people were being exploited.

Aprendí que la mirada implacable con la que nos fileteamos y descuartizamos y despreciamos las mujeres es una mirada nuestra, una mirada interna, una exigencia loca con la que nosotras mismas nos esclavizamos

La normalidad es un marco convencional que homogeneiza a los humanos, como ovejas encerradas en un aprisco;

la selva, ese asfixiante, putrefacto, enloquecedor vientre vegetal.

En realidad, lo que perdió al bueno de Zola en este caso fue el prejuicio. Y es que nuestros prejuicios nos encierran, nos achican la cabeza, nos idiotizan; y cuando estos prejuicios coinciden, como suele suceder, con la convención mayoritaria, nos convierten en cómplices del abuso y la injusticia, como en el caso de Wilde.

Las mujeres padecemos el maldito síndrome de la redención.