Quotes About Oppression

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

The plan was always to come to America, because Pakistan's a scary place. They don't have religious freedom. It's very poor, and there's a lot of violence and corruption.

If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do.

All military regimes use security as the reason why they should remain in power. It's nothing original.

It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

I have been subjected to constant harassment and humiliation by Mr. Abad Ponda with his sexist remarks and insulting comments.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

I've made it abundantly clear and I'll repeat yet again there's no question of gagging individuals.

Trans people have been repeatedly told that we don't have the right to live. And Black people have been told that by our slave masters and continue to be told that by society. We have, generationally, bled this kind of hatred.

It's easy to let ourselves off the hook and say, 'Oh, I would never own slaves.' Because this is in the DNA of this country, like we saw in Ava DuVernay's film '13th.' The cycle keeps repeating itself.

For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.

In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.

The suffragettes endured 50 years of broken government promises and not being heard. The press never reported on their activities.

In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.

Under Xi, China has again become the world's top jailer of journalists. China's rank on the Reporters Without Borders index of press freedom is 176th out of 180 countries. China comes in dead last on the Freedom House 'Freedom on the Net' list.

We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

The brutality against the Baloch people represents the worst form of State oppression.

Most Americans take their freedom very seriously, but they don't realize that not everyone is free. The repressed are not free to do what they want. That's what 'Star-Crossed' was all about for me.

I feel like that's so ingrained in so many children that you are so confined and repressed growing up that, anything you do, you have to rebel against it at some point.

I love the spiritual side of religion, but the church, for me, is a place where I feel very repressed.

I've never really subscribed to the theory that repression breeds rebellion. I don't think that's really true.

The seed of revolution is repression.

Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.