Quotes About Oppression

Frankly, it's a bit shocking to me the lengths government will go to to let little Rappler feel its power.

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

The freedom of expression cannot be defined selectively.

Freedom of speech wasn't won by being nice, it has been won by struggle with religion.

I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat.

Apartheid didn't impinge on music. It impinged on people's freedoms.

I grew up under a dictatorship. I knew what it meant for people to not have the ability to freely express themselves.

In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

Poverty took me from being the girl who was always the lead in the school play, to a woman who can't open her own front door.

Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

Violence against women is fundamentally about power.

En mi experiencia, estas guerras en pises del tercer mundo no se ganan con balas sino con enfermedades, y no hablo de armas biológicas sino de desidia, de brutalidad, de olvido y de marginalidad

Mrs. Vanderdecken,' Sylvia went on, 'says all men are repulsive and it's woman's disgusting task to live beside them.

When, then, a man was deprived of freedom he became like a brute. To

Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.

It was a book about the French Revolution, and she was soon lost in a harrowing picture of the prisoners in the Bastille—men who had spent so many years in dungeons that when they were dragged out by those who rescued them, their long, gray hair and beards almost hid their faces, and they had forgotten that an outside world existed at all, and were like beings in a dream.

You thought I was a native! You dared! You don't know anything about natives! They are not people—they're servants who must salaam to you. You know nothing about India. You know nothing about anything!

The Bastille had melted away, the prisoners no longer existed.

When I am Weaker Thn You, I ask you for Freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am Stronger than you, I take away your Freedom Because that is according to my principles.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

We know the major conditions wherein this large populace may turn upon its keepers - One: When they find a leader. This is the most volatile threat to the powerful; they must retain control of leaders. Two: When the populace recognises its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning. Three: When the populace perceives a hope of escape from bondage. They must never even believe that escape is possible!