Quotes About Oppression

Ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation to the prejudice and oppression of another is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy...An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.

There are a lot of ways an oppressed people can rise. One way to rise is to study, to be smarter than your oppressor. The concept of rising against oppression through physical contact is stupid and self-defeating. It exalts brawn over brain. And the most enduring contributions made to civilization have not been made by brawn, they have been made by brain.

D?vod vytvo?ení tolika trestných ?in? je stejný, jako vždy byl u všech diktatur: pot?eba udržovat ob?any ve strachu a nev?domosti, co sm?jí a co nesm?jí, a možnost trestat kohokoli kdykoli za cokoli.

To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

People at the top do not want to share their power. They've always got some marvellous reason: I'm following my religion; I'm following the laws of economics. Even Stalin: I'm representing the vanguard of the working class, so please don't cause trouble. That is the battle that every generation has, and yet we mustn't be pessimistic about it.

How can those Christians who see monetarism being so cruelly applied to the old, the sick, the homeless, women, the black community, and the young unemployed, lead a struggle against this injustice from within an established church subject to a Cabinet and a parliamentary majority composed of those very people who are responsible for implementing those very policies?

Women did not have as many options as men, and I need to reflect that reality in my mysteries.

Politics also reflects the fault lines in our society, and the fact is that it is not very easy for any marginalised group to come forward in any domain.

We need comprehensive immigration reform. Dr. King wouldn't be pleased at all to know that there are millions of people living in the shadow, living in fear in places like Georgia and Alabama.

For one moment, after I left Jerusalem with my family for life in Illinois, I thought that maybe there's still a chance: maybe there are still enough people in Israel who refuse to rule and oppress another nation.

To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

We're always being told that there's a linear progress regarding women. It only gets better, especially for women artists. It's not true.

There are hierarchies in B-Town regarding many things, not just gender. Men also go through a lot in this industry.

When reggae was introduced to the world, it was a voice of the oppressed, a music with integrity that you can enjoy holistically. Throughout the years, what has become commercial kind of strayed from the integrity.

The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.

Kim Jong-un and the regime don't just oppress - they play with human lives.

It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.

If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you don't have a regime.

As much as the South African racist regime is prepared to fight to the last man, so are we determined to fight to the bitter end.

In my early 20s, living in a communist regime in Romania, success to me simply meant leaving and coming to America.

You couldn't have too many dreams because in the Communist regime, everything was cookie-cutter.

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.