Quotes About Oppression

There were theoretical elements in the subjection of women and it is not possible to avoid the conclusion that a large contribution was made to them by the Church. In part this was a matter of its hostile stance towards sexuality.

If there is a spot where you have dictatorship, where people are not free, people are not satisfied, they do not find food and shelter, they are under the poverty level, this is a dangerous spot for the whole world, because those people will move, and they will move to different places. They will be carrying bad feelings towards others.

Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.

We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?

Trump's America means many things, but this much is clear - it means toxic white masculinity is not just permitted, it's fully empowered - and getting worse.

The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay.

Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as instruments of exploitation and oppression.

Much of the foundation of our criminal justice system is derived from slave patrols and was created when African Americans could still be bought, sold, and traded.

The fabric of society is woven together by the needle of suppression and denial.

And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.

An honourable public and a dishonourable dictator cannot live together; at the end, the latter goes!

The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self-government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

I wish she'd said something different, but patriarchy is as prevalent around the world as racism and xenophobia are. We can't hide from it, not even here.

Well I've seen travel in many waysI've traveled in cars and old subwaysBut in Birmingham some people choseTo fly down the street from a fire hose.Doin' some hard travelin'...from hydrants of plenty.

It is easy to cut down the tree of liberty, but not so easy to restore it to life.

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

One can lynch a person without a rope or tree.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

What kind of times are they, when A talk about trees is almost a crime Because it implies silence about so many horrors?

L'arbre de la liberté croît lorsqu'il est arrosé du sang de toute espèce de tyrans (The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants).

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.