Quotes About Oppression

We must transfer our anger to the brutalities of our time.

You feel the shame, humiliation, and anger at being just another victim of prejudice, and at the same time, there's the nagging worry that maybe... you're just no good.

…majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows.

Am I right in thinkin' you've maybe been" - he dropped his voice - "the victim of an infamous outrage by the darkies?

I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come.

The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.

I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain, and their cars were abysmal.

Governments commit more crimes upon persons and property and contribute more to their insecurity than all [the] criminals put together.

Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.

The people of a nation are enslaved when, together, they are helpless to institute effective change, when the people serve the government more than the government serves them.

Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.

China is not a great idea: capitalism and a dictator. It's like the two worst possible things you could imagine together. It's a very bad idea.

Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

You said I was free, she told him. I have never been free—very few women ever are.

When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice.

Other classical writers insisted that the tone and timbre of women's speech always threatened to subvert not just the voice of the male orator but also the social and political stability, the health, of the whole state.

1 Silence Where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence. -ADRIENNE

If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it. Zora Neale Hurston

It was a feminist act, revealing secrets in order to free herself and the women of her clan from the silence and obscurity to which a misogyny thousands of years old would have relegated them.

Credit 47 Barbed-wire fences and guards prevented anyone from leaving the ghetto.

A technique favored by Mussolini's squadristi thugs. Political foes were force-fed large quantities of castor oil—up to a quart, according to The Straight Dope. Who does that? Moreover, why? To kill by dehydration? To humiliate? I could find no satisfying answer, not even from the International Castor Oil Association, which, despite large quantities of emails, had no comment.

The possessions most esteemed by your fellow-creatures were high and unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with only one of these advantages; but, without either, he was considered, except in very rare instances, as a vagabond and a slave, doomed to waste his powers for the profits of the chosen few!