Quotes About Oppression

Yes, fear and repression may be permanent citizens in Narendra Modi's Gujarat.

I would curse people who resort to coups against democracy, liberty, republic.

I am dying not just to attempt to end the barbarity of H-blocks or to gain the rightful recognition of political prisoners, but primarily because what is lost here is lost for the Republic.

If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.

I don't want to see that two-tier Senegal, that two-tier Africa, when you have those at the top and those at the bottom, people who are hungry, people who do not have enough to eat.

May 20, 2017, was one of the scariest days of my life. It was the day I realized I was being hunted by Erdogan.

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.

This society, it hurts me, man.

The economic freedom has come to a lot of us who are lucky, but many women are still beaten up by husbands, even when they are breadwinners.

Why don't we actually fight for a woman's right even to complain about being beaten up. That is more important than driving. If a woman is beaten, they are told to go back to their homes - their fathers, husbands, brothers - to be beaten up again and locked up in the house.

If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.

I get angry about the way women are forced and bullied into what the male ideal is.

For the U.S., a nation that boasts of being the land of the free, it does not live up to its ideal.

It is hardly fair to accuse us of ignorance when it was made a crime under the former order of things to learn enough about letters to even read the Word of God.

Freedom believes in education - the salvation of slavery is ignorance.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

For a long time, the Indonesian government ignored 'The Act of Killing,' hoping it would go away.

Any time a black person has the audacity to tell everybody else that they're also human beings, they are confronted with all kinds of malice and violence and ill will. It's been that way since black people were brought to this country.

Slavery is illegal everywhere, but it exists all over the world.

In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

It was important to feel that you were resisting the fascism around you. But we had no electricity to watch movies. We were imagining our movies.

To liberate women and end violence is to break down the culture of power imbalance.

When I taught a civil rights class at the University of Maryland Law School, I would do an exercise with my students. I'd write 'civil rights' on the board and ask them to tell me what immediately came to mind.