Quotes About Oppression

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

The violence of our time is caused by obedience.

You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder.

You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.

The process of nonviolence is one that takes time and those of us who've suffered, who've been persecuted over the years, would like to see things change, you know, overnight.

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

It's very worrying at this time in the world that any point of view should be prohibited, that's banned, there are heretics that should be burned at the stake.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

This political line is wholly neo-Soviet: human beings do not have independent existences, they are cogs in the machine whose function is to implement unquestioningly whatever political escapades those in power dream up. Cogs have no rights. Not even to dignity in death.

Our friend stood still for a moment, and throwing his head a little back, said, "Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?" "No," said the other. "Then I'll tell you. It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble themselves to stand up for the oppressed, nor bring the wrong-doer to light. I never see a wicked thing like this without doing what I can

Il mondo va male perché la gente pensa solo agli affari propri, e non si preoccupa mai di prendere le parti di chi è ingiustamente oppresso o di smascherare i malfattori. Per fortuna

Totalitarian regimes, they declared, all had at least five things in common: a dominant ideology, a single ruling party, a secret police force prepared to use terror, a monopoly on information, and a planned economy. By those criteria, the Soviet and Nazi regimes were not the only totalitarian states. Others—Mao's China, for example—qualified too.

This book was not written 'so that it will not happen again', as the cliché would have it. This book was written because it almost certainly will happen again. Totalitarian philosophies have had, and will continue to have, a profound appeal to many millions of people.

Those who can walk will walk. Protest or not—all will walk. Those who can't walk—we will shoot.

It is the silence that frightens me so in the evenings and at night...I can't tell you how oppressive it is never to be able to go outdoors, also I am very afraid that we will be discovered and be shot.

Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans, and to think I'm actually one of them! No, that's not true, Hitler took away our nationality long ago. And besides, there are no greater enemies on earth than the Germans and the Jews.

Yo no creo que la guerra sólo sea cosa de grandes hombres, gobernantes y capitalistas. ¡Nada de eso! Al hombre pequeño también le gusta; si no, los pueblos ya se habrían levantado contra ella.

One of the many questions that have often bothered me is why women have been, and still are, thought to be so inferior to men. It's easy to say it's unfair, but that's not enough for me; I'd really like to know the reason for this great injustice!

Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans, and to think I'm actually one of them! No, that's not true, Hitler took away our nationality long ago. And besides, there are no greater enemies on earth than the Germans and the Jews.

Fizeram questão de lembrar que somos judeus acorrentados, acorrentados num lugar, sem qualquer direito, mas com mil deveres.

vuelto a tomar conciencia del hecho de que somos judíos encadenados, encadenados a un único lugar, sin derechos, con miles de obligaciones.