Quotes About Oppression

It may appear that the prizes for winning are indispensable, that without them life is meaningless, perhaps even impossible. There are, to be sure, games in which the stakes seem to be life and death. In slavery, for example, or severe political oppression, the refusal to play the demanded role may be paid for with terrible suffering or death.

Imposed silence is the first consequence of the Master Player's triumph.

Father of the Constitution," said: "The accumulation of all power – legislative, executive, and judiciary – in the same hands . . . may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.

in the 20th century, six times more people were killed by their own governments than were killed in wars.

In this kip of a city it's regarded as a crime for a poor man to go about his lawful occasions

Socialism was made to order for tyrants.

Toward no crime have men shown themselves so cold-bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.

Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.

There was nothing benign about segregation, nothing accidental.

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

They're all about power and control. They're the tyrannical thumb pressing a head down to the ground, demanding blind obeisance. They want you to only listen to the word of their leader, instead of the loving word of God.

when it was your people being persecuted, it opened your eyes to the inhumanity of your actions.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

They are slaves who fear to speak,For the fallen and the weak.

The three-and-a-half-week walkout "had little effect on Britain's decision to grant Ireland independence," wrote Bruce Nelson, but it did lead to the integration—if short-lived—of African Americans into the Chelsea Piers workforce, the experience of diaspora and oppression briefly uniting black and Irish dockworkers "who had long regarded each other with suspicion and even hatred.

basketball courts ringed with barbed-wire fence.

As we walked outside together, into the Christmas crowds, I felt unsteady and sorrowful; and the ribbon-wrapped buildings, the glitter of windows only deepened the oppressive sadness: dark winter skies, gray canyon of jewels and furs and all the power and melancholy of wealth

Your silence is not acceptable.

Um, we don't hit women in America.' He scowled, and spit out an apple seed. 'No. Americans just persecute smaller countries that believe different from them.

It is not until one visits old, oppressed, suffering Europe, that he can appreciate his own government, he observed, that he realizes the fearful responsibility of the American people to the nations of the whole earth, to carry successfully through the experiment... That men are capable of self-government.

Shortly before she left for New York, she received an unwelcome present from South Carolina—a painting depicting Lincoln "with a rope around his neck, his feet chained and his body adorned with tar and feathers.

if slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong

tendency to substitute violence, murder, and lynching for the rule of law, the courts, and the Constitution.

Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long.