Quotes About Oppression

The world's been turned upside down. The most decent people are being sent to concentration camps, prisons and lonely cells, while the lowest of the low rule over young and old, rich and poor.

SöyleyebildiÄŸimden çok daha fazla s?k?nt?lar içerisindeyim,hiçbir zaman d??ar? ç?kamayaca??z ve müthiÅŸ korkuyorum bizi bulup vuracaklar diye.Bu tabi ki çok hoÅŸ bir manzara deÄŸil.

They were pale, and didn't say a word when Cady entered the room. Had they been sitting like this every night for months? Seeing all those pale and frightened faces was awful. With each bang of an outside door, a shock went through everyone in the room, as if the door to life itself were symbolically being slammed shut.

don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.

Es que la gente corriente no sabe lo que significa un libro para un escondido.

These poor people are being shipped off to filthiy slaughterhouses like a herd of sick and neglected cattle. But I'll say no more on the subject. My own thoughts give me nightmares!

In my imagination, the man I thought was trying to get inside the Secret Annex had kept growing and growing until he'd become not only a giant but also the cruelest Fascist in the world.

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone, are guilty of the war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!

Ab Mai 1940 ging es bergab mit den guten Zeiten:...,und dann das Elend fur uns Juden begann. Judengesetz folgte auf Judengesetz, und unsere Freiheit wurde sehr beschrankt. Judden mussen einen Judenstern tragen; Juden mussen ihre Fahrrader abgeben;...Jacque sagt immer zu mir: ,,Ich traue mich nichts mehr zu machen, ich habe Angst, dass es nicht erlaubt ist.

This is because having to obey one concept of right is inherently unjust. God has given each of us a unique sense of right, so when we are forced to live under someone else's for years and years, we run the risk of losing our own. But not everyone can be crushed. Sooner or later the longing for freedom is bound to assert itself.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.

but you have to remind yourself that perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.

And you were ready to silence a Harper, and that is a greater wrong, for when speech is restricted, all men suffer, not just I.

for when speech is restricted, all men suffer

overlooking the fact that a woman's most important function in life begins with physical domination?

What did law, or even justice, matter in the face of

It's actually happening: all sorts of people seen as misfits, dealt with as if they were a disease. And the Germans get away with it, because most people simply can't believe it would ever happen to them.

One person's ideals sometimes endanger someone else's privileges.

I struck him down for Deborah, and for all the poor and ignorant women I have seen screaming in the flames, for the women who have expired on the rack or in cold prison cells, for the families destroyed and for the villages laid waste by these awful lies.

Even white males who owned no slaves could contribute to the problem by producing, with enslaved black women, children who would be born free, thus destroying a critical component of the master's property right: the ability to capture the value of the "increase" when female slaves gave birth.

She scanned the captives, looking for Shay and David. The familiar faces in the crowd were haggard, dirty, crumpled by shock and defeat, but Tally realized that she no longer thought of them as ugly. It was the cold expressions of the Specials, beautiful though they were, that seemed horrific to her now. A