Quotes About Oppression

Xi has made plain that he will no longer tolerate hearing the words 'human rights' spoken out loud in the same sentence with the word 'China.'

You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.

Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot.

The recent alarming development and aggression of aggregated wealth, which, unless checked, will inevitably lead to the pauperization and hopeless degradation of the toiling masses, render it imperative, if we desire to enjoy the blessings of life, that a check should be placed upon its power and upon unjust accumulation

I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.

I have reached the end of this dreary and repugnant tale of a sense interned in an alien carcass and lumpen by the malignant spirit of the moral majority...

Then think of the work the rebels had to tear it down! They had no Powers." "Just the power of hatred and anger," said Cerf. "Which we've learned is pretty fuckin' strong.

They go out into the world expecting adventure, and the patriarchy eats them.

Who seems a harmless fool to those above him is a malevolence to those beneath.

Powers and saints, if she was any flatter, they'd be using her to pave the roads.

I ask no favors for my sex.... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.

People who are being punished for doing nothing, for having normative conflict, or for resisting unjustified situations, need the help of other people.

I have come to understand that the same action of unjustified escalation most often comes from one of two positions: Supremacy, or Trauma. And in realizing this, I am surprised by the similar behaviors expressed by these two divergent experiences.

Perhaps because Supremacy in some produces Trauma in others, they can become mirror images.

The law is designed to protect the state, not the people who are victimized by the state.

But ironically it's precisely this state of poetic perfection—so appealing to visitors—that can become oppressive when you live here.

Behind every bad law, a deep fear.

His throat bulges queerly, as men's throats do: as if inviting the blow that will crush it.

I said slowly that, yes, I had seen wretched things there. I said I had seen women unable to speak, because the matrons kept them silent. I had seen women harm themselves, for the variety of it. I had seen women driven mad. There was a woman dying there, I said, because she was kept so cold and badly fed. There was another who had put out her own eye—

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

published the Road Map to Peace. The premise of this plan, as the Palestinian historians Samih Farsoun and Naseer Aruri point out, "is that the nearly forty-year-old impasse is not caused by an abnormal and illegal occupation but by the Palestinian resistance to that occupation. Progress was thus linked to ending the intifada and all acts of resistance rather than ending the occupation or reversing decades of colonial impoverishment of land, resource, and institutions.

One day the Israelis may realize that the reason for the never-ending turmoil disrupting their lives has nothing to do with our opposition to the Jewish state but is rooted in the more mundane fact that human beings are not constituted to accept injustice.

The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

Babylon was and is a timeless trope for empires and nations and powers that systematize injustices, oppress the people of God, and suppress the truths of liberation. Babylon is no more a city of the future than it is a city of the here and now.