Quotes About Oppression

Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.

Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it.

Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

I didn't know what freedom was. I didn't even know the word. I didn't know the concept. I never heard of that word, 'freedom.' To me, the happiest thing was having food.

In France, the people were the sport of a king's caprice. Everywhere was the shadow of the Bastille. It fell upon the sunniest field, upon the happiest home.

The brutality of apartheid drains you of that emotion of fear if you have gone through everything you can be put through in the process of harassment.

Authority is never without hate.

Let them hate so long as they fear.

We have such a culture of discrimination and hatred, and one that has scapegoats and affects people so extremely. That's something that very easily crosses borders.

As a disabled person, I feel like a lot of times we don't get to be heard.

A man like Wilde was not free to live out of the closet as a homosexual, and women in general were not able to be truly themselves; there was no place for a woman's voice to be heard or for her to express her sexuality.

I think police brutality has been going on since - I don't know - ever since I can remember and, you know, hearing about it in my childhood.

The Great Khali always serves up a good beatdown if you can't get out from under that heavy hand.

I think there are ways in which we censor ourselves; that's the most dangerous kind of censorship - that's how hegemony works.

Censorship is the height of vanity.

It has always been a great wrong that these men and their families should be held in bondage.

The well-stuffed slave masters currently gorging themselves in Cuba's halls of power need to be held accountable.

His very chains helped to deceive him about the harshness of his service.

Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.

One of the things that's interesting about black culture is we don't know about our heritage and about our genealogy because it was taken from us. So all that we have is we're black. That's where we start.

There's so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned.

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world.

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

I feel that discrimination and hierarchy is something that people have to face constantly.