Quotes About Oppression

Nasceu com boceta? Vai ser enganada. Traída, humilhada.

I asked them why when they persecute men, for religion or colour it was seen by the world as oppression and when they persecute women, it was dismissed as tradition.

Injustice constitutes the essence of social life.

Tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in fear rather than to face the anguish of being himself.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Los animales -que viven todos de sus propios esfuerzos- no conocen la miseria, pues ignoran la jerarquía y la explotación. Este fenómeno aparece sólo con el hombre, el único animal que ha esclavizado a sus semejantes; solamente el ser humano es capaz de tanto desprecio de sí mismo.

We must side with the oppressed on every occasion, even when they are in the wrong, though without losing sight of the fact that they are molded of the same clay as their oppressors.

There are nights that the most ingenious torturers could not have invented. We emerge from them in pieces, stupid, dazed, with neither memories nor anticipations, and without even knowing who we are. And it is then that the day seems useless, light pernicious, even more oppressive than the darkness.

Uno debe ponerse del lado de los oprimidos en cualquier circunstancia, incluso cuando están equivocados, sin perder de vista, no obstante, que están hechos del mismo barro que sus opresores.

Conquest and Inquisition—parallel phenomena, products of Spain's imposing vices.

To exempt themselves from action, oppressed peoples entrust themselves to "fate," a negative salvation as well as a means of interpreting events: a philosophy of history for daily use, a determinist vision on an effective basis, a metaphysic of circumstance . . .

The right to suppress everyone that bothers us should rank first in the constitution of the ideal State.

Try to be free: you will die of hunger. Society tolerates you only if you are successfully servile and despotic; it is a prison without guards – but from which you do not escape without dying.

Of all those who suffered a long period of slavery, they alone have succeeded in resisting the charms of abulia.

Ya te cansaste de andar descalza de pie y pierna, como las mujeres de bien, ¿eh, condenada? ¿Llevó medias alguna vez tu madre? ¿Peinóse como tú, que siempre estás dale que tienes con el cacho de espejo? Toma, para que te acuerdes...".

Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hand but a rifle in your fist

There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes--

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they do not turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.

Nothing, in fact, is as universal or as ancient as the iniquitous and absurd.

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

All exercise of authority perverts, and submission to authority humiliates.

If there is a State, there must be domination of one class by another and, as a result, slavery; the State without slavery is unthinkable -- and this is why we are the enemies of the State.

In ancient times, as to-day in Asia and Africa, slaves were simply called slaves. In the Middle Ages, they took the name of "serfs", to-day they are called "wage-earners".