Quotes About Oppression

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

...people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered on the ground.

They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.

I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Then I was not happy or contented: every time I saw a white man I was afraid of being carried away.

Your time will come to follow me Jew

This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.

The woman's position in the world today is so much harder than a man's that it makes me choke every time I hear a man complain about anything.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.

The only time the white man is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he will oppress you, when you will submit to him.

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me

The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today.

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen.

You know what happened the last time a group of people said, 'Screw it, we don't care what you think'? They got hung as witches.

During my time in the camps, I had got to know the enemies of the human race quite well: they respect the big fist and nothing else; the harder you slug them, the safer you will be.

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.