Quotes About Oppression

it doesn't matter what professors Or smart-alecks think; all that counts is how the little Man sees his master. Basta.

Hay muchas maneras de matar. Pueden meterte un cuchillo en el vientre. Quitarte el pan. No curarte de una enfermedad. Meterte en una mala vivienda. Empujarte hasta el suicidio. Torturarte hasta la muerte por medio del trabajo. Llevarte a la guerra... Solo algunas están prohibidas en nuestro Estado.

La legge è fatta esclusivamente per lo sfruttamento di coloro che non la capiscano, o ai quali la brutale necessità non permette di rispettarla.

Do rio que tudo arrasta diz-se que é violento. Mas ninguém diz violentas as margens que o comprimem. -- The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one.

La guerra che verrà non è la prima. Prima ci sono state altre guerre. Alla fine dell'ultima C'erano vincitori e vinti. Fra i vinti la povera gente Faceva la fame. Fra i vincitori Faceva la fame la povera gente egualmente.

LOS DE ARRIBA se han reunido en una sala. Hombre de la calle: abandona toda esperanza. Los gobiernos firman pactos de no agresión. Hombre pequeño: escribe tu testamento.

Do rio que tudo arrasta se diz que é violento, mas ninguém diz violentas as margens que o comprimem.

When the Regime commanded the unlawful books to be burned, teams of dull oxen hauled huge cartloads to the bonfires. Then a banished writer, one of the best, scanning the list of excommunicated texts, became enraged: he'd been excluded! He rushed to his desk, full of contemptuous wrath, to write fierce letters to the morons in power — Burn me! he wrote with his blazing pen — Haven't I always reported the truth? Now here you are, treating me like a liar! Burn me!

The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.

We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.

The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end There were conquerors and conquered. Among the conquered the common people Starved. Among the conquerors The common people starved too.

The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

There is a tyranny in the womb of every Utopia.

Vowing never to be deluded again, he ordered that a new bride be brought to him each night and on each following morning he had her executed.

In savage times marriage was a matter either of force, fraud, or purchase. Women were merchandise, by the sale of whom their male relatives profited, or they were captives in war, the spoil of the conqueror, or they were stolen away from the paternal home. In all cases, however, the possession once obtained, they became the property of the men who married them, and the husband was their "lord," their "master."

Before the white man became universally disliked for his mental outlook, it was there. The white man found only too many people who looked different. That was all that outraged the receivers of his discrimination, that he applied the technique of the wild jiggling dance and the rattling tin cans to anyone who was not a white man.

once you make yourself a freak and special any bastard starts to use you. That's half of the fierce fight in Africa' — Elizabeth

The whole village was involved. There was no longer buzz, buzz, buzz. Something they liked as Africans to pretend themselves incapable of-- being oppressive and prejudiced-- was being exposed. They always knew it was there but no oppressor believes in his oppression.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

She will be challenged to develop intimacy in an environment in which all intimate relationships are corrupt. She will be challenged to develop an identity out of an environment which defines her as a worthless slave.

It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.