Quotes About Oppression

Ang pagpapaumanhin ay hindi laging kabaitan, siya'y kasamaan pag naguudyok sa paniniil.

When a people cannot offer its daughters a tranquil home under the protection of sacred liberty, when a man can only leave to his widow blushes, tears to his mother, and slavery to his children, you do well to condemn yourself to perpetual chastity, stifling within you the germ of a future generation accursed!

Malungkot at naninimdim ang dukhà. Sa gabing iyon, kung bahagya mang nagdasal ay nanalangin namang labis, nagdurusa ang mga mata't lumuluha ang puso. Wala siyang mga nobena, hindi alam ang mga jaculatoria, ni ang mga berso, ni ang mga oremus na kinatha ng mga fraile upang gamitin ng mga walang sariling isip ni sariling damdamin.

Patriotism can only be a crime in a tyrannical people, because then it is rapine under a beautiful name, but however perfect humanity may become, patriotism will always be a virtue among oppressed peoples, because it will at all times mean love of justice, of liberty, of personal dignity—nothing of chimerical dreams, of effeminate idyls!

Meanwhile, they who were so carelessly disposing of people's fates, he who commanded the legal murders, he who violated justice and made use of the law to maintain himself by force, slept in peace.

And you, your religion created for a suffering multitude, have you forgotten your mission of consoling the oppressed in their misery, and humbling the hubris of power, and now render promises only to the rich, those who can pay?

The people do not complain because they have no choice; they do not move because they are in a stupor; and you say that they do not suffer because you have not seen how their hearts bleed. But some day you will see and hear!

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

There are no tyrants if there are no slaves.

Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.

Ang sagot sa dahas ay dahas, kapag bingi sa katuwiran.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Cato Would Lucius have me live to swell the number Of Caesar's slaves, or by a base submission 30 Give up the cause of Rome, and own a tyrant?

During the colonial years of our nation, racism was perpetrated in the form of two unspeakably horrible and devastatingly evil activities-the genocide of indigenous peoples and the enslavement of African peoples.

Exterminate all the brutes!

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

Our government seemed to expect the same of them as of white men. Poor Negroes! They are hopelessly inferior. . . . If you need combat soldiers, and especially if you need them in a hurry, don't put your time upon Negroes.

America, which he never visited, he called "that monstrous prison of freedom . . . where the most repulsive of tyrants, the populace, holds vulgar sway" and "all men are equal—equal dolts

If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way. —ÉMILE ZOLA

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

In addition, the most reliable and recent studies of African tribal culture demonstrated that slavery was a long-standing custom among the Africans themselves, so enslaved Africans in America were simply experiencing a condition here that they would otherwise experience, probably in more oppressive fashion, in their mother country.

Un immonde vieillard essayait de suborner le pays. "Soyez sages, soyez lâches, enseignait-il. Oubliez que vous avez été fiers, joyeux et libres. Obéissez et souriez au vainqueur. Il vous laissera vivoter tranquilles.

Tu comprends, ils sont venus dans leurs chars, avec leurs yeux vides. Ils pensaient que les chenilles des chars sont faites pour tracer la nouvelle loi des peuples. (...) La France est tellement civilisée, tellement amollie, pensaient-ils, qu'elle a perdu le sens du combat souterrain et de la mort secrète. Elle acceptera, elle s'endormira. Et dans son sommeil nous lui ferons des yeux vides.