Quotes About Oppression

Dictators require the assistance of the people they rule, without which they cannot secure and maintain the sources of political power. These

A country's finances, natural resources, and production capacities are often arbitrarily plundered by dictators and used to support the dictators' will.

If we could have our way, no man would have to go roving or draw blood. But women did not make the world. All of you are torturers, one way or another.

In the old times, the lords of this world feared no one but their own people, and to defend themselves against them built a great fortress on a hilltop to the north of the city...Many of the people were angry at the building of that citadel, holding it to be their right to slay their lords without hindrance if they so desired.

You have bettered yourself, he said, making such a low bow that the tassel of his cap swept the carpet. You may recall I invariably affirmed you would. Honesty, integrity, and intelligence cannot be kept down. We both know that nothing is easier to keep down, I said. By my old guild, they were kept down every day.

With him I hated the Autarchy, though I had no notion of what might replace it. With him I despised the exultants who failed to rise against the Autarch and bound the fairest of their daughters to him in ceremonial concubinage. With him I detested the people for their lack of discipline and a common purpose.

He wandered in the high, hot lands where men have few laws and many slaves.

Tyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more evil it is, the more it is loved. The difficulty lies in judging the degree of tyranny under which you live.

She thought she was brave, but she did not have that kind of courage. To face the men who controlled the torturers, the lists, the surveillance, and say: I am going to do the very thing you say I must not do. And yet they were right.How were things to get better if no one fought?

When fatigue finally forced him to pause, he ordered the men who were left to have their hearts torn out and their carcasses burned

Wir sind das Volk und wir wollen, dass kein Gesetz sei; ergo ist dieser Wille das Gesetz, ergo im Namen des Gesetzes gibt's kein Gesetz mehr, ergo totgeschlagen!

Die Unterdrücker der Menschheit bestrafen, ist Gnade; ihnen verzeihen, ist Barbarei.

This nigger girl scared for white bwana.

It is also true that when a people, long kept in a boiling cauldron of oppression, suddenly find the lid removed, they spend their remaining energy battling chimerical enemies.

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

The ultimate form of censorship is assassination.

You see this creature with her kerbstone English: the English that will keep her in the gutter to the end of her days.

It is not easy to make the best of both worlds when one of the worlds is preaching a Class War, and the other vigorously practising it. — Shaw's Preface

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted to another shoulder.

Think of how it all started: America was founded by slave owners who informed us, All men are created equal. All men, except Indians, niggers, and women. Remember, the founders were a small group of unelected, white, male, land-holding slave owners who also, by the way, suggested their class be the only one allowed to vote. To my mind, that is what's known as being stunningly--and embarrassingly--full of shit.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight?

Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners.