Quotes About Oppression

Men still walk around like the US of A is a big cake store and all the cake is for them.

They want you to be small and silent. Good was just another word for don't fight back.

palace with massive pillars and many courtyards, and his word was law. All the people of Egypt had to toil for him if he so decreed. And sometimes he did.

I am often asked the question How can the masses permit themselves to be exploited by the few. The answer is By being persuaded to identify with them.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.

The only relationship which Cecil conceived was feudal: that of protector and protected.... He daren't let a woman decide. He's the type who's kept Europe back for a thousand years. Every moment of his life he's forming you, telling you what's charming or amusing or ladylike, telling you what a man thinks womanly; and you, you all all women, listen to his voice instead of to your own.

O colégio interno de] Sunnington foi a etapa seguinte na carreia de Maurice. (...) Tendo sido maltratado enquanto caloiro, maltratava outros que parecessem infelizes ou fracos, não porque fosse cruel, mas porque era o que se devia fazer. ------------------- p. 22, MAURICE, E.M.FORSTER

The censor's sword pierces deeply into the heart of free expression.

We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is more painful than rejection. I am a rejected, oppressed person, and so I understand them, as best as I can, even though I am a ??

We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is more painful than rejection. I am a rejected, oppressed person, and so I understand them, as best as I can, even though I am a heterosexual.

The global attack on women, and the connected attempt by right-wing populism to reshape them into characters from The Handmaid's Tale, excludes no nationality, no social class, no religion and no privilege.

A world where the humiliated greets the perpetrator as his savior.

Every regime, without exception, starts building it's ideal citizen by tampering with its women. It takes a whole generation to create a new man, but redesigning women, so they believe, is an overnight job.

The age of pretending not to see the victim is over. This is the era of gawping at the oppressed and having a good laugh about it, even when the oppressor hasn't actually called for you to do so.

He also knew that the call to break the imaginary chains of slavery preventing the real people from reaching greatness would resonate with his supporters, regardless of the fact that it sounded absurd to those who had had the chance to become what they wanted to be. 'It's not you,' he told them. 'It's them who prevent us from being great.' He gave them something solid to hate, and they gave him their votes.

Evil rules, and good men must needs be outlaws—or corpses—if they're to stay good. So

Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy of justice.

King told the audience that night, "was that black people have been kept in oppression and deprivation by a poisonous fog of lies that depicted them as inferior, born deficient, and deservedly doomed to servitude to the grave." He went on to say that "so long as the lie was believed the brutality and criminality of conduct toward the Negro was easy for the conscience to bear.

But, if I am not the nigger, and if it's true that your invention reveals you, then who is the nigger? I am not the victim here….So I give you your problem back. You're the nigger, baby, it isn't me.

The United States has always been shadowed by practices that contradict our most cherished principles. The genocide of native peoples, slavery, racial apartheid, Japanese internment camps, and the subordination of women reveal that our basic creed that "all men are created equal" was a lie, at least in practice.

In the face of such evil, the federal government continued to slow-walk substantive reform, and white people continued to be white people.

quoting Baldwin: "Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy of justice.

When residents erupted in Baltimore, Maryland, after the murder of Freddie Gray, one activist was seen outside the Western District police station with a sign quoting Baldwin: "Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy of justice.