Quotes About Oppression

No wonder the rulers of this age want to stop the singing, or pollute it with ideology and managed slogans!

The fifth and most serious charge against relativism is an extension of the fourth weakness. The relativist cannot morally evaluate any clearly oppressive culture or, more specifically, any obvious tyrant.

anyway i saw it coming from the rooftops. they said the second coming was heading our way tomorrow's world today force fed to us in a tobacco-colored spoon keep us entertained – content - oppressed. we prayed, friend, and they brought it down.

What I really wanted more than anything was to put my boss on the floor and stand on his throat and watch him gag.

It always requires more strength to make someone free than it does to keep that person in bondage.

Non c'è libertà come la libertà di essere sempre sottovalutati.»

Non c'è libertà come la libertà di essere sempre sottovalutati.

Wars, disease, taxes. Bowing heads and kissing boots. There's plenty of hungry damn things prowling on land, Orin. It's just that the ones at sea tend not to wear crowns.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of Stalin's regime and asking the poet Anna Akhmatova if she could describe it all, if her art was equal to it.

peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.

The diamond absolutes. I am neither internee nor informer; An inner emigre, grown long-haired And thoughtful; a wood-kerne Escaped from the massacre, Taking protective colouring From bole and bark, feeling Every wind that blows; Who, blowing up these sparks For their meagre heat, have missed The once-in-a-lifetime portent, The comet's pulsing tose.

Every nail, claw-scale and spur, every spike and welt on the hand of that heathen brute was like barbed steel.

When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.

It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

Every time I see a picture of Stalin I look him square in the eye and I say: You're a meat eater, Joseph.

You took my freedom away a long time ago and you can't give it back because you haven't got it yourself.

As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.

But you have nothing better to do with your time than harass us, do you? Go back to ruling the universe from Mount Olympus or whatever else it is you mongrels do.

Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place... They revolted against much more mild oppression.

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.

Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.

The time to assert one's right is when it's denied!