Quotes About Oppression

The chains that cuff humanity are made of office paper

A verdadeira explicação de tudo isto é que um grande diabo o dominou e que uma infinidade de diabos mais pequenos aparecem para servir o grande.

houses which in their totality cough and shiver with fever day and night, where one has to eat meat, where ex-hangmen dislocate one's arms if one resists the injections, and where beard-stroking Jewish doctors, as callous towards Jew as Christian, look on.

do I really have to carry on getting tangled up with the chattering of base functionaries like this? - and they admit themselves that they are of the lowest position.  They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway.  It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves. 

Ä°ÅŸkence çeken insanl???n zincirleri büro kâ??tlar?ndand?r.

Cellat, günümüzde, soylu bir memur deÄŸildir; kamu iÅŸlevinin pragmatik ruhu ona iyi bir maaÅŸ saÄŸlar. Sonuç olarak, her namuslu memurun içinde niçin bir cellat uyuyor olmas?n? […] Onlar [memurlar] canl? ve dönüÅŸebilen varl?klar? ele al?p onlar? ölü ve en ufak dönüÅŸüme müsait olmayan arÅŸiv sicil kay?tlar? haline getirirler.

The animal wrests the whip from the master and flails itself in order to become the master

Yes, they are hounding me.

Somos oprimidos por un silencio que nos ahoga y queremos romper.

guards try to steal the shirts off the backs of arrested men

Tú estabas dotado para mí de eso tan enigmático que poseen los tiranos, cuyo derecho está basado en la propia persona, no en el pensamiento.

For me you took on the enigmatic quality that all tyrants have whose rights are based on their person and not on reason. At least so it seemed to me.

In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

When this boy was brought to Dr. Young, his name being William, the same as mine, my mother was ordered to change mine to something else. This, at the time, I thought to be one of the most cruel acts that could be committed upon my rights.

The text, 'Is God a White Racist', By Rev. Dr. William Jones, is still studied by theologians and academics and taught in institutes of higher learning. The book called into question the chief construction of black liberation theology: that God is on the side of the oppressed.

Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?