Quotes About Oppression

Listen, 'The Purge' actually exists in some form or another in many places around the world when you think about it.

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

My mother sang. But back in the day, it was looked down upon if the lady of the house wanted to sing in public. So, she couldn't pursue her musical aspirations.

The U.S. Declaration of Independence enshrines the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Alas, that is not the case everywhere in the world.

Why do you all push us around?

Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.

Once you start choking the space for dissent in a democracy, people feel pushed to the wall and then it leads to further dissent and alienation.

I'm pushing back against the white, misogynistic, heterosexual establishment in the music industry. Like, literally, in all its forms.

I see myself as a person who is pushing back and fighting against oppression in all its forms, centering racial and economic injustice very explicitly.

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

LGBT people are at the heart of President Vladimir Putin's crackdown on democracy.

We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.

One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.

I think it's criminal the way poverty is allowed to flourish.

We live in a capitalist society and if we're talking about the people at the bottom of the food chain, it's women of colour.

The food we call soul food is slave food. We were forced to eat it.

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy.

Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.

I've always fought any form of censorship.

When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.