Quotes About Oppression

There's this false notion that you have to separate and choose between issues of class and issues of race. What people do when they say that you need to separate class from race is that they are really just saying that people of color should come second.

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

In North Koreans, the moment we are born, we don't know there's another life existing outside of our country. The regime always told us all the bad things about the outside world, describing America as full of thieves, all human scum, beggars, everyday people dying on the streets and hospitals.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Often, small things give me hope when big things feel so oppressively bleak.

The most obvious thing I do is I don't wear a burqa, and I'm definitely not oppressed. Plus, I'm quite obviously an independent thinker, which means as soon as I walk on stage, I dispel a lot of those stereotypes.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

There's a lot of head-shaking and forehead-slapping when you start to realize just how deep-seated misogyny can be, how systemic and entrenched certain modes of thinking are that are still very much alive.

There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the third servile war, which was Spartacus' war, where you have a man who is a slave who is then turned into a gladiator who broke out of the gladiator school and led a rebellion and then became the face of the war.

One of the regime's most important tactics is the creation of a third force in the country.

The sources of Islamism's strength include the fact that it is a response to the oppression of the Third World as a whole.

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

I grew up in a refugee camp. Thirty years. This so-called human-rights world didn't ask me what was happening for me to be there 30 years.

I hope that we when we stand up to those who oppress our communities that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

Why hast thou made me born in this country, The inhabitant of which is satisfied with being a slave?

North Korea is a religion. We are told that Kim is a god and that he knows what you are thinking and how many hairs are on your head. It is the only country which talks about 'thought crime' - even thinking is a crime.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

By limiting or denying freedom of speech and expression, we take away a lot of potential. We take away thoughts and ideas before they even have the opportunity to hatch. We build a world around negatives - you can't say, think, or do this or that.

I don't know what stops Indian athletes from expressing their thoughts freely, maybe it is the fear of repercussions.

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

I would like people to have an appreciation for what happened to women under the Taliban, as in 'A Thousand Splendid Suns.' I hope they get a sense of how connected we all are.