Quotes About Oppression

El amo cogió a Tom y lo vistió bien, lo alimentó bien y hasta le dio un poquito de educación - un poquito de educación- le dió una levita y un sombrero de copa e hizo que todos los esclavos lo mirarán con respeto.

my mother in there was a statistic that didn't have to be, that existed because of a society's failure, hypocrisy, greed, and lack of mercy and compassion.

They asked if I knew what "conscientious objector" meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object.

the numbers game was referred to by the white racketeers as "nigger pool.

You can't have capitalism without racism.

No, I'm not an American. I'm one of 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the … victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. So I'm not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver – no, not I! I'm speaking as a victim of this American system. I don't see any American dream; I see an American nightmare!

El periodismo está vivo y por eso lo matan.

La pobreza no curte el alma ni la favorece. La esclaviza.

In a wicked generation, might makes right, violence is praised, and virtue is slandered." —Hesiod, Works and Days

The book of Proverbs makes the same point: Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him. (14.31)

Thus Paul has been used to support systems of cultural conventions oppressive to more than half of the human race. No wonder slaves, women, gays and lesbians, and those who care about them have often found Paul appalling.

So the issue is not character flaws among the elites. The issue, rather, is a system in which some people sleep on beds made of ivory while others end up being sold for the price of a pair of sandals.

and mediators of the sacred and, at worst, a snare. He knew an oppressive and exploitative social order that legitimated itself in the name of God, and he knew this was not God's will. And he knew all of this most foundationally because he knew God.

It was on old joke among underfed, angry sailors that should mutiny fail, the weight of their bodies would not be enough to hang them.

The slave ships are ghost ships still sailing around the edges of our modern consciousness. Their legacy in the present is discrimination, deep poverty, structural inequality, and premature death.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

In communities and individuals alike, excessive freedom topples over into excessive slavery. Extreme freedom produces a tyrant, along with the extremely harsh and evil slavery that goes with him.

Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead flowers in a vase. Sometimes at night I whisper it over to myself: Murderess, Murderess . It rustles, like a taffeta skirt across the floor.

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

Mary: Some call this Eve's curse, but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with the nonsense of Adam.

Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

I am not mad because I'm a woman... I'm mad because you're an asshole.

underlings given sudden power frequently become the worst abusers of it.

How tedious is a tyranny in the throes of enactment. It's always the same plot.