Quotes About Oppression

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

All my life had been dominated by a sign, often invisible but no less real for that, which said: 'Reserved for Europeans Only.'

Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

In the same way that Egypt and Libya conspired to 'disappear' my father and silence writers such as Idris Ali, they made me, too, to a far lesser extent, feel punished for speaking out.

We have never escaped a certain male cultural desire for women's silence.

My social media is riddled with me speaking out on stuff that matters because silence is a petri dish for hate. For me, it's important to speak out.

Silence is the residue of fear.

Every time I speak up about anything to do with women or ethnic minorities, hundreds of messages pour in to attempt to silence or frighten me.

Democrats want more censorship, not less, as long as it silences conservative voices.

For a country to be looted, its people's voice must be silenced.

I've been silenced in America.

Nobody should be getting silenced.

I don't want to be a dissident. But in the same time, I don't want to go back home and be silent again.

If I keep silent, I am betraying my people.

I was pursuing my acting career, but I was silent on the LGBT issue, the issue that was closest to me. I knew if I came out then, I'd have had to change careers.

A good girl in Afghanistan should be silent, should not talk about her future, should listen to your family, be like a doll so that everyone can play with her.

In terms of freedom, America doesn't invite any comparison to Russia. It would be silly to make one. Every line that I care to write, I can have printed. There is no point to even talk about degrees.

While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse and oppression affects us all.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

Homophobia, racism, and sexism are all rooted in the same oppression that causes a group of people to internalize the oppression they've experienced and then continue the cycle of abuse. Simply put, hurt people hurt people.

Remember, they hate us as no other nation, for we are to them that which they fear beyond all: women unmastered by men.

Our very existence makes them abominate us, for it calls their own wives and daughters to aspire to freedom.