Quotes About Oppression

This was the United States justice system supplying forced black labor to corporate America long after slavery had been abolished. So how can we trust the power structure of white politics and white law enforcement to have our best interests in mind?

If you're powerless, lord, then why be ashamed of what the strong inflict on you? It's for them to be ashamed.

So you settle to be a slave, eh? Yes, lord, no, lord, let me hold your prick while you piss all over me, lord?

but he dared not move. He was a whipped

Because I'm tired of Wessex,' I said, 'tired of priests, tired of being told what your god's will is, tired of being told that I'm a sinner, tired of your endless damned nonsense, tired of that nailed tyrant you call god who only wants us to be miserable.

If there's one thing a Puritan fears, it's a woman.

He came from the gutters of England and anyone born and raised in those gutters knew that most persecution and oppression was inflicted by lawyers. Lawyers were the devil's servants who ushered men and women to the gallows, they were the vermin who gave orders to the bailiffs, they made their snares from statutes and became wealthy on their victims and when they were rich enough they became politicians so they could devise even more laws to make themselves even wealthier.

Chez les Tigres noirs du Sri Lanka on entrainait les femmes combatantes qui n'étaient pas vierges à passer une journée avec une grenade dans le vagin. (ch. 2)

gender is one of the biggest lies of our civilization

his bredren and sistren could damned well speak up for themselves why should he carry the burden of representation when it will only hold him back? white people are only required to represent themselves, not an entire race

what it was like when white men opened doors or gave up their seats on public transport for white women (which was sexist), but not for them (which was racist)

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said thou shalt not, and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.

I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing or worth having done: the only thing that I strongly feel worth while would be to murder as many people as possible so as to diminish the amount of consciousness in the world. These times have to be lived through: there is nothing to be done with them.

Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Our nominal morality has been formulated by priests and mentally enslaved women. It is time that men who have to take a normal part in the normal life of the world learned to rebel against this sickly nonsense.

But sooner or later the oppressed class will argue that its superior virtue is a reason in favour of its having power, and the oppressors will find their own weapons turned against them. When at last power has been equalized, it becomes apparent to everybody that all the talk about superior virtue was nonsense, and that it was quite unnecessary as a basis for the claim to equality.

There is equality where all are slaves, as well as where all are free. This shows that equality, by itself, is not enough to make a good society.

En aÅŸa?? tasar?lar?m?z ve yoksulluÄŸumuz kadar,çirkinlikte, bizim özel giriÅŸim kâr?na köle olmak için ödediÄŸimiz fiyat?n bir bölümüdür.

The idealizing of the victim is useful for a time: if virtue is the greatest of goods, and if subjection makes people virtuous, it is kind to refuse them power, since it would destroy their virtue.

Bolshevism is a close tyrannical bureaucracy, with a spy system more elaborate and terrible than the Tsar's, and an aristocracy as insolent and unfeeling, composed of Americanised Jews. No vestige of liberty remains, in thought or speech or action. I was stifled and oppressed by the weight of the machine as by a cope of lead. Yet I think it the right government for Russia at this moment. If you ask yourself how Dostoevsky's characters should be governed, you will understand. Yet it is terrible.

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

diktatörlüÄŸün baÅŸlang?çtaki amaçlar?nda iyi diye ne varsa despotizmin kaç?n?lmaz mant??? dolay?s?yla bunlar?n tümü yok olacak ve dikta iktidar?n? koruma amac?, devlet mekanizmas?n?n yal?n amac? olarak gitgide daha güçlü bir biçimde ortaya ç?kacakt?r...

When the rapacity of capitalists grows oppressive, one may be suddenly consoled by the recollection that Brutus, that exemplar of republican virtue, lent money to a city at 40 per cent, and hired a private army to besiege it when it failed to pay the interest.

The oppression of a minority by a majority is no better, except numerically, than the oppression of a majority by a minority.