Quotes About Oppression

It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments

And Leites and Wolf were wrong. "It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality of governments

What they did is not "right," just as it is not "right" to send children up against police dogs. But we need to remember that our definition of what is right is, as often as not, simply the way that people in positions of privilege close the door on those on the outside. David has nothing to lose, and because he has nothing to lose, he has the freedom to thumb his nose at the rules set by others.

we need to remember that our definition of what is right is, as often as not, simply the way that people in positions of privilege close the door on those on the outside.

The slow darkening of the murals as you look from right to left. It seems somehow to symbolise the gradual imposition of the Spaniards' conquering will upon the Indians. Do you see what I mean?

Th soul! Ah, and did she not too have her savage and traitorous Tlaxcalans, her Cortés and her noches tristes, and, sitting within her innermost citadel in chains, drinking chocolate, her pale Moctezuma?

First, Spaniard exploits Indian, then, when he had children, he exploited the half-breed, then the pure-blooded Mexican Spaniard, the criollo, then the mestizo exploits everybody, foreigners, Indians, and all. Then the Germans and Americans exploited him: now the final chapter, the exploitation of everybody by everybody else –

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.

It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.

They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

We didn't land on plymouth rock, Plymouth rock landed on us.

You can cuss out colonialism, imperialism, and all other kinds of ism, but it's hard for you to cuss that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, your soul goes.

Justice without mercy is tyranny

Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! [...] I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.

Never elated while one man's oppress'd; Never dejected while another's blessed.

The homosexual is a scapegoat who evokes no sympathy. Hence, he can only be a victim, never a martyr.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.

The teachers are getting screwed, blued, and tattooed by the system.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

Already the sahibs have done more to keep the lower castes in their places than our Hindu kings did over hundreds of years.