Quotes About Oppression

Better a thousand times err on the side of over-readiness to fight, than to err on the side of tame submission to injury, or cold-blooded indifference to the misery of the oppressed.

In his novels from beginning to end, Dickens is making the same point always: that to the English governing classes the people they govern are not real.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

Cuando no se deja espacio a la inteligencia, nomás se escucha el estruendo de los cañones y el crepitar de la fusilería.

Whether actors express "resentment" or "hostility" toward minorities is largely irrelevant for the maintenance of white privilege.

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck that he might cut it off, and as I read this letter I am afraid that for a moment I was capable of wishing the same thing concerning the laboring class of America.

It's dangerous to tell the truth, truth without power is always dangerous. And we should fight! Freedom's not an idea, it's a passion! If you haven't got it you fight like a fish out of water fighting for air!

Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who, on the one hand, do not actively assist it or, on the other, do not passively submit.

It was resolved, That England was too pure an Air for Slaves to breathe in.

No taxation without representation.

Oh, freedom! Oh, freedom!Oh, freedom over me!And before I'd be a slave, I'll be buried in my grave,And go home to my Lord and be free.

I believe there is yet a spirit of resistance in this country, which will not submit to be oppressed; but I am sure there is a fund of good sense in this country, which cannot be deceived.

And he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!

The poor are poor because the rich are rich.

Go down, Moses,Way down in Egypt land,Tell old Pharaoh,Let my people go.

No one is free when others are oppressed.

Where griping griefs the heart would woundAnd doleful dumps the mind oppress,There music with her silver soundWith speed is wont to send redress.

Censorship offends me.

Today, Passover is used as an opportunity to reflect on the things that plague our world, to seek justice for the still-oppressed and even to bring together multi-faiths family and friends under the common banner of universal freedom.

Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.Come now, and let us reason together… though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.

Oh, Paddy, dear, an' did ye hear the news that's goin' round? The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground! No more St. Patrick's Day we'll keep, his colour can't be seen, For there's a cruel law agin' the Wearin' o' the green.