Quotes About Oppression

Misogyny was born of fear of women.

When there is no context for justice, freedom-seeking behavior is seen as annoying. Or futile. Or a drag. Or oppressive. And dismissed and dismissed and dismissed and dismissed until that behavior is finally just not seen.

The drag queens who started Stonewall are no better off today, but they made the world safe for gay Republicans. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but the people who make change are not the people who benefit from it

Parliament would abolish slavery in the British Empire in 1833, thirty years before President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. A return to the British fold in 1778 might have freed American slaves three decades sooner, which is what, an entire generation and a half? Was independence for some of us more valuable than freedom for all of us? As the former slave Frederick Douglass put it in an Independence Day speech in 1852, 'This is your Fourth of July, not mine'.

it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing you hold down the adjoining.

El dictador necesita multitudes vivientes, pero también muchedumbres de cadáveres.

First these people murdered you, then they forced you to brood over their crimes.

But what about justice?—Justice! Look who wants justice! Most of mankind has lived and died without—totally without it. People by the billions and for ages sweated, gypped, enslaved, suffocated, bled to death, buried with no more justice than cattle.

The Dictator must have living crowds and also a crowd of corpses.

The human being, more and more oppressed by the peculiar terms of his existence - one time around for each, no more than a single life per customer - has to think of the boredom of death. O those eternities of nonexistence! For people who crave continual interest and diversity, O! how boring death will be! To live in the grave, in one place, how frightful!

U svakoj zajednici postoji vrsta ljudi koja je neobi?no opasna za druge ?lanove zajednice. Ne mislim na kriminalce. Za njih imamo kaznene sankcije. Mislim na vo?e. Najopasniji ljudi bez iznimke idu za vlaš?u. Dok pozitivnom gra?aninu uskipljuje srce u salonima indignacije. Gospodine uredni?e, za nas je neizbježno da budemo roblje onima koji posjeduju mo? da nas unište.

Slavery has never really been abolished. More people are enslaved to different things than you can shake a stick at.

And it is not hard to guess what he, the descendant of serfs, risen to a position of such might, must have experienced. Confronting the leaders of the bourgeois West, so long feared and hated, he saw himself to be tougher, deeper, and more intelligent than any of them.

But this might have been construed to mean that what the Nazis had done to the Jews resembled what Zionism had done to the Arabs—a parallel no sane person would agree to.

Now settlers go into "liberated territories" like colonialists, with army support, and take land from the "natives.

look don't we make beautiful victims?

lawyer by training, Kajevic had the same talent as Hitler, making his gargantuan self-importance a proxy for his country's and his rantings the voice of his people's long-suppressed rage.

La raza humana es igual en todas partes. La inmensa mayoría emplea casi todo su tiempo en trabajar para vivir, y le abruma de tal modo la poca libertad de que goza, que pone de su parte cuanto puede para perderla. ¡Oh destino de los mortales!

Si je voyais du sang, je serais plus tranquille. Ah! J'ai déjà cent fois saisi un couteau pour faire cesser l'oppression de mon cœur. L'on parle d'une noble race de chevaux qui, quand ils sont échauffés et surmenés, s'ouvrent eux-mêmes, par instinct, une vaine avec les dents pour se faciliter la respiration. Je me trouve souvent dans le même cas : je voudrais m'ouvrir une veine qui me procurât la liberté éternelle.

L'uomo è uomo, e quel briciolo d'intelligenza che uno può avere entra poco o nulla in gioco, quando la passione infuria e i limiti dell'umano gli si stringono intorno opprimendolo.

Wehe denen die sich der Gewalt bedienen, die sie über ein Herz haben, um ihm die einfachen Freuden zu rauben, die aus ihm selbst hervorkeimen. Alle Geschenke, alle Gefälligkeiten der Welt ersetzen nicht einen Augenblick Vergnügen an sich selbst, den uns eine neidische Unbehaglichkeit unsers Tyrannen vergällt hat.

The weak often have revolutionary sentiments; they think they would be well off if they were not ruled, and fail to perceive that they can rule neither themselves nor others.