Quotes About Oppression

Um ehrlich zu sein, muß man wissen. Um tapfer zu sein, muß man verstehen. Um gerecht zu sein, darf man nicht vergessen. Wenn das Joch der Barbarei drückt, muß man kämpfen und darf nicht schweigen. Wer in solcher Zeit schweigt, verrät seine menschliche Sendung.

The freedom we want, for ourselves and for others, is not an absolute metaphysical, abstract freedom which in practice is inevitably translated into the oppression of the weak; but it is real freedom, possible freedom, which is the conscious community of interests, voluntary solidarity.

We too aspire to communism as the most perfect achievement of human solidarity, but it must be anarchist communism, that is, freely desired and accepted, and the means by which the freedom of everyone is guaranteed and can expand; for these reasons we maintain that State communism, which is authoritarian and imposed, is the most hateful tyranny that has ever afflicted, tormented and handicapped mankind.

Governments oppress mankind in two ways, either directly, by brute force, that is physical violence, or indirectly, by depriving them of the means of subsistence and thus reducing them to helplessness at discretion.

Con l'odio, se si vince, si possono fondare nuovi governi, ma non si può fondare l'anarchia.

When the bosses exploit them [the workers] they pay no heed to party distinctions and starve them all the same; when the carabinieri pepper their chests with the kings lead, they do not bother to ask what sort of membership card they carry in their pockets.

Ao invés de opor aos milhões dos capitalistas os poucos centavos reunidos penosamente pelos operários, é preciso opor aos fuzis e aos canhões que defendem a propriedade os melhores meios que o povo encontrar para vencer pela força.

We do not carry on our struggle in order to put ourselves in the place of the exploiters and oppressors of today, nor do we even struggle for the triumph of an empty abstraction.

In realtà nessuno potrebbe istituire la dittatura rivoluzionaria se prima il popolo non avesse fatta la rivoluzione, mostrando così a fatti la sua capacità di farla; ed allora la dittatura non farebbe che sovrapporsi alla rivoluzione, sviarla, soffocarla ed ucciderla.

Il farsi mettere il freno nella speranza di essere meglio guidati non può condurre che alla schiavitù.

Money is a powerful means of exploitation and oppression; but it is also the only means (apart from the most tyrannical dictatorship or the most idyllic accord) so far devised by human intelligence to regulate production and distribution automatically. For the moment, rather than concerning oneself with the abolition of money one should seek a way to ensure that money truly represents the useful work performed by its possessors. . . .

Women ain't good for nothing but to marry and work for men

You took me on because I was helpful in your political cause. Because I could aid in your experiments. Beyond that I was of no use to you, and so you abandoned me." I struggled to get my breath. "I was nothing to you. You never saw me as equal. You were more concerned that slavery should be a moral stain upon white men than by the actual damage it wreaks on black men.

You were more concerned that slavery should be a moral stain upon white men than by the actual damage it wreaks on black men.

I was nothing to you. You never saw me as equal. You were more concerned that slavery should be a moral stain upon white men than by the actual damage it wreaks on black men." Even as I spoke these words, I could hear what a false picture they painted, and also how they were painfully true.

He did not ever mistreat me. But it was no kindness; for I knew this must all end, that I would be returned to the cane fields and their brutality someday. And so I did not allow myself to grow comfortable, but instead scrambled after thermometers tossed in the grass, gathered his dropped scopes, carefully folded leaves into the long wooden box he called his vasculum, feeling each evening only relief that I had not been punished.

This was not the only hazard, though it was the worst of them. White men were everywhere aggrieved, and they would sometimes rise up against us black devils, the miserable black scourge who would destroy their livelihood by labouring at cheaper rates.

kidnappers generally roamed the coast, and in the rainy, grey dusk they would stun a freed man in the street and drag him half-conscious onto a ship bound for the Southern states, to make of him a slave again. This was not the only hazard, though it was the worst of them. White men were everywhere aggrieved, and they would sometimes rise up against us black devils, the miserable black scourge who would destroy their livelihood by labouring at cheaper rates.

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

Their women only exert indirect powers over them, powers that seem ineffective, or else are so strong that they, the men, can't recognize them as such. But a woman who stands up to them and looks them in the eye is a tree to be cut down, and they cut it down. She falls with the sound of dead wood which disappears among the perfidious murmurings of the city, and to the smirking of other women who are satisfied with the male victories.

Dis tog presies waarteen Biko en Fanon en wie ook al protesteer. Jy moet eers 'n klein Engelsmannetjie word voordat jy burger van die moderne wêreld mag wees? "Wat

Solitude seems to oppress me. And so does the company of other people.

Arise, ye prisoners of starvation,Arise, ye wretched of the earth,For justice thunders condemnation—A better world's in birth.

The world is no longer man's theatre. Man has been made into a helpless spectator. The two evil forces he has created- science and the state- have combined into one monstrous body. We're at the mercy of our monster...