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Quotes About Oppression

Stanley wasn't a good downpour. Nothing wrong with a good downpour for clearing the air. Stanley was the sort of thing you needed a good downpour to clear the air of. Stanley was muggy, close, and oppressive, like someone large and sweaty pressed up against you in a tube train. Stanley didn't rain, but every so often he dribbled on you. Dirk
~ Douglas Adams
Ye cannae fix injustice-with more of it.
~ Douglas Bond
Father, will justice ever reign in Scotland?
~ Douglas Bond
tyrants always set about shaping history after their liking.
~ Douglas Bond
Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.
~ Douglas Coupland
The rich will always be with us.' There is no answer, except to make sure we wealthy are not allowed to use our money as a tool of oppression and subversion of democracy.
~ Douglas Preston
I can scarcely believe the cruelty of the last century. It staggers the soul.
~ Douglas Preston
make sure we wealthy are not allowed to use our money as a tool of oppression and subversion of democracy.
~ Douglas Preston
A woman in the shape of a monster a monster in the shape of a woman the skies are full of them
~ Adrienne Rich
That light of outrage is the light of history
~ Adrienne Rich
Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.
~ Aeschylus
Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.
~ Aeschylus
Death is preferable -- it is a milder fate than tyranny.
~ Aeschylus
For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.
~ Aeschylus
In a change of government, the poor change nothing but the name of their master.
~ Aesop
What are blessings in freedom are curses in slavery.
~ Aesop
I don't like the idea of your being a governess at the beck and call of tyrannical mother's and their tiresome brats.
~ Agatha Christie
Dictatorul e de meserie cizmar, diploma scoalara si-a cumparat-o. Nu stie nici sa scrie nici sa citeasca, spune mama, e mai prost ca noaptea. Dar noaptea nu ucide, spune tata.
~ Aglaja Veteranyi
I have no country...my countrymen are the men and women who work against oppression- it does not matter where they are. With them I feel at home- we understand each other. Others are foreign to me." -Agnes Smedley in Daughter of Earth
~ Agnes Smedley
Since they were unable to liberate themselves from the old words and the fear, they prowled the streets and cast their angry shadows.
~ Aharon Appelfeld
There have been those among us who have been so dazzled by the might and technological wizardy of Europe that they have been rather a man who stands lost in admiration at the gun that is raised to shoot him.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
From Aus B. Shurahbil" He heard Allah Messenger say: "One who strives to strengthen an oppressor and knows he is an oppressor has already left Islam. Baihaqi
~ Ahmad Von Denffer
Je parle de millions d'hommes à qui on a inculqué savamment la peur, le complexe d'infériorité, le tremblement, l'agenouillement, le désespoir, le larbinisme.
~ Aimé Césaire
Écoutez le monde blanc horriblement las de son effort immense ses articulations rebelles craquer sous les étoiles dures ses raideurs d'acier bleu transperçant la chair mystique écoute ses victoires proditoires trompeter ses défaites écoute aux alibis grandioses son piètre trébuchement Pitié pour nos vainquers omniscients et naïfs !
~ Aimé Césaire