Quotes About Oppression

Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.

The imperial, genocidal war machine never rests, so I don't either.

Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.

When it comes to combating imperialism we are all Stalinists.

Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.

Racism is very characteristic of imperialism. Racism is very characteristic of capitalism.

There is no such thing as talking about class without there being implications of the racial history of the United States. You just can't do it.

As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.

From my family alone, Qaddafi had imprisoned five men.

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control.

The mass incarceration going on in this country and with my people is crazy.

Mass incarceration is a massive system of racial and social control.

Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.

Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

'Child 44' has no room for inconsequential choices because Stalinist Russia had no room for them, either.

It seems to me that we are living in an increasingly unfree society.

It's incredible that they censor films. It's sad.

Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

Yet feminism has never killed anyone. Machismo, it kills every day.

The day has been, I grieve to say in many places it is not yet past, in which the greater part of the species, under the denomination of slaves, have been treated by the law exactly upon the same footing as, in England for example, the inferior races of animals are still.

To be born a woman has been to be born, within an allotted and confined space, into the keeping of men.

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.