Quotes About Oppression

bigotry to consist in stubborn and unjustified animus toward people, typically (though not always) in the context of a larger system of subordination.

She is but a woman and many unsound and dangerous principles are held by her.

Being an employee was considered a form of bondage, only a step above indentured servitude.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.

The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks of authenticity and virtue, of suffering and oppression.

A few decades back one could get a pretty good idea of someone's overall political stance by finding out how much he hates rich people; the equivalent today is finding out how much he hates white people.

Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.

Paul opposed Rome with Christ against Caesar, not because that empire was particularly unjust or oppressive, but because he questioned the normalcy of civilization itself, since civilization has always been imperial, that is, unjust and oppressive.

America our nation has been beaten by strangers who have bought the laws and fenced off the meadows and cut down the woods for pulp and turned our pleasant cities into slums and sweated the wealth out of our people and when they want to they hire the executioner to throw the switch.

The rich were getting richer, the poor were getting poorer, small farmers were being squeezed out, workingmen were working twelve hours a day for a bare living; profits were for the rich, the law was for the rich, the cops were for the rich;

While there is a lower class I am of it, while there is a criminal class I am of it, while there is a soul in prison I am not free.

They have clubbed us off the streets they are stronger they are rich they hire and fire the politicians the newspapereditors the old judges the small men with reputations the collegepresidents the wardheelers (listen businessmen collegepresidents judges America will not forget her betrayers) they hire the men with guns the uniforms the policecars the patrolwagons all right you have won you will kill the brave men our friends tonight (author's punctuation)

Of all the tyrannies on human kindThe worst is that which persecutes the mind.

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

.... When you have no voice, you don't exist

Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.

When struck on one cheek to turn the other, is really joining a conspiracy to secure the triumph of brutality. To agree not to resist evil is to become an accomplice of all injustice.

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.

[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.

Liberty is life; slavery is death.

Life makes no sense if you have to tolerate endless lies. I will never accept this system, which is built on lies, i will not stop my fight against this junta.