Quotes About Oppression

Nobody can be trusted with unlimited power. The more power a regime has, the more likely people will be killed. This is a major reason for promoting freedom.

In Ethiopia, the problem is that you don't know who's who. You don't know who to trust. You don't have any freedom.

Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne.

The truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

To have the truth in your possession you can be found guilty, sentenced to death.

The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets.

The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

Man's inhumanity to man is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be supressed.

The acid test of any truth is found in whether it aids victims in their struggle to overcome victimisation.

Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth.

People who know the truth have no business to allow the powers of darkness to silence them on any point that matters.

Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.

She clenched her fists. "I believe, milord, that I have endured my full limit of male tyranny." "I am afraid, milady, that you will have to become accustomed to it. It is the way of things, here in the world beyond your cloister." He turned her forward and nudged her to continue down the stairs. "This world would fall into chaos if women were allowed to do whatever they wished.

Now,' Kaine say, 'now this man free, bo'n free, but still, any white man what say he a slave be believed cause a nigga can't talk fo the laws, not ginst no white man, not even fo his own self.

If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way.

Black saw the connection between crime and poverty.