Quotes About Oppression

And all because of those crazy preachers in the North who want to free our darkies, who

He became the permanent scourge of what he called the "slaveocracy.

Slavery, in other words, founded and fixed the meaning of blackness more than any transparent and transhistorical meaning of black skin founded the category of slavery.

The magistrate was harsh with his subordinates, ruthless to his enemies, and pitiless to his people. All feared his wrath, and when he roared his orders the people trembled. Behind his back, they called him Magistrate Tiger.

There were few comforts to console them during this endless labor. Masters fed their slaves as little as possible, because food cost money. Children usually didn't have real clothes. Instead, they wore rough, itchy sacks with holes cut out for their heads and arms. Harriet

In 1810, there were over one million slaves in America.

If a slave was caught learning how to read and write, he could have his fingers or toes cut off!)

He began to realize what the criminal class knows so well, the impossibility of explaining anything to a man with power.

You have a sense of humour. I am in favor of jokes. They have political value. Jokes are a release for the cowardly and the impotent.

They don't want Communism.' 'They want enough rice,' I said. 'They don't want to be shot at. They want one day to be much the same as another. They don't want our white skins around telling them what they want.

Philipot was one of the initiates what a triumph that would represent for Papa Doc as he dragged his country down.

peine forte et dure.

Magneto Was Right' - Quentin Quire

A government based on fear attracts the worst elements, who corrupt it from within. A shaky edifice, a government against its people, any of its people, must soon collapse.

White America looks at the Vietnamese, the Irish, the Jews, and they say, 'What's the problem with the blacks?' The resentment you hear around this town is based on that, not on old ideas of superiority.

blacks who had been dragging the city down for the past twenty years. Rusk and a few trusted friends referred to them as "untouchables.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. It was the future, and everything sucked.

We thought, they have come to crush belief, because belief leads to hope, and hope can topple monsters.

Scraping away the dirt from a secret doesn't always set you free. Sometimes it's the very opposite.

She was held captive by love, fear, and the church's promise that if she prayed harder, everything would get better.

she woke up, unable to breathe through a pillow pressed over her face.

The question that wins the world is not, how can we get our "morally superior" way enforced in the world? The question that wins the world, and the question that must define the individual and collective life of kingdom-of-God citizens is, how do we take up the cross for the world? How do we best communicate to others their unsurpassable worth before God? How do we serve and wash the feet of the oppressed and despised?

The question that wins the world, and the question that must define the individual and collective life of kingdom-of-God citizens is, how do we take up the cross for the world? How do we best communicate to others their unsurpassable worth before God? How do we serve and wash the feet of the oppressed and despised?

WORLD IS RUN by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards