Quotes About Oppression

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

Fascism may be good at making the trains run on time, but you wouldn't like some of the destinations.

I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white supremacy, misogyny, and biphobia.

It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

By the time of the GDR's demise, two in every 13 citizens were informers.

To me we're living in this very profoundly non-idealogical time where the real divide is between people who have power and people who either don't have power or feel that they don't have power.

Now the white man's time is over. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us - and who knows, it might make God decide to give the white devil a few more years.

Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song.

Historically, when a leader has deployed his own military against civilians, it's never been good. There's never been a time where it's ended well.

she makes me wash, they make me comb all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed... the widder [widow] eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she wakes up by a bell-everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it

To all intents and purposes Roxy was as white as anybody, but the one sixteenth of her which was black outvoted the other fifteen parts and made her a Negro. She was a slave, and salable as such.

Any established church is an established crime, an established slave pen.

this dreadful matter brought from these downtrodden people no outburst of rage against these oppressors.  They had been heritors and subjects of cruelty and outrage so long that nothing could have startled them but a kindness.

For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon--laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution- these can lift at a colossal humbug- push it a little - weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

No Californian gentleman or lady ever abuses or oppresses a Chinaman, under any circumstances, an explanation that seems to be much needed in the East. Only the scum of the population do it—they and their children; they, and, naturally and consistently, the policemen and politicians, likewise, for these are the dust-licking pimps and slaves of the scum, there as well as elsewhere in America.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race—the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities.

Now the thing for YOU to do is to droop your tails and go home and crawl in a hole.  If any real lynching's going to be done it will be done in the dark, Southern fashion;

the lawful slave of a scion of slaves

no people in the world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood, whatever may answer afterward. If

Uvjerio sam se, naime, o neoborivoj ?injenici da nijedan narod na svijetu, kraj svih ljubaznih, praznih rije?i, filozofiranja o protivnom, još nikada nije stekao svoju slobodu dobro?udnim brbljanjem i moralnim uvjeravanjem: nepromjenjivi je zakon da sve revolucije koje žele imati uspjeha moraju po?eti u krvi, bez obzira na to što ?e biti poslije.

What dost thou know of suffering and oppression? I and my people know, but not thou.

whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books.