Quotes About Oppression

The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.

I grew up in the shadow of the Trujillato, saw how the regime had ravaged so many families.

My mom told me many times how I need to be careful living inside the regime. We didn't say 'the regime.' We didn't even say 'North Korea.'

When you enter into a struggle, and you genuinely believe in what you are doing, and you live under injustice, and you live under a regime that is dictatorial and oppresses people, there have to be sacrifices.

The North Korean regime really can control people. I think they are the best dictator in the whole planet.

People of my generation did not like very much to tell what we lived through during the Khmer Rouge regime.

Fidel's oppressive legacy will haunt the Cuban regime and our hemisphere forever.

Don't blame America for the thousands of Cubans who have been arrested, detained, and imprisoned by Castro for peacefully protesting the regime.

A pattern has developed under the Maduro regime. When pressure builds, the first recourse is to repress and persecute. I know this because buckshot pellets fired by members of the armed forces - at peaceful protesters in 2017 - remain lodged in my own body. A minor price to pay compared to the sacrifices made by some of my compatriots.

I'm not Cuban and therefore don't have any family members who were oppressed by Castro's regime. But I do have a number of friends whose families were.

During the 35 years of Left regime, there was no independence. We were left at the hands of torturers.

In North Korea, it was actually an oppressive regime and that's why I escaped with my life.

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes, but at least they had humanity at the center of their thinking.

I'm fascinated by the ways people under repressive regimes still manage to share information - and joy.

Humor is always important. There are people who help us deal with difficulty or hardship; from the concentration camps to the court jester, there was a need for humor. As long as these kinds of things exist, with repressive regimes, you need it to deal with the weight of daily life.

Nothing protects women from the patriarchy of military regimes.

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

Far too often, I have been accepted or rejected for work because of the color of my skin.

Before the advent of the white man, black people were doing all kinds of things with their hair. The rejection of kinks and curls did come with the white man.

I've always felt I've related to women deeply because of being gay and feeling like there was always somebody trying to oppress me, to keep me down, to put me in my place.

Historically, people of color and the Diaspora have been at the bottom of the barrel, even as it relates to immigration. If we don't engage in the discussion, then what is it that we're saying to people? That we don't care?

In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.

The idea of capitalism and the relation that black people especially have to capitalism is something that's interesting to us.