Quotes About Oppression

Mao's great talent lay in turning the Chinese people into slaves, while making them feel like they were the masters of the country…All the world's dictators have studied Mao.

Qué mundo es éste en el que las mujeres necesitan que unos hombres las protejan de otros hombres! Más os valía cambiar vosotros en vez de meternos en jaulas para que otros no puedan dañarnos.

Tiene gracia que usted me pregunte por qué no nos rebelamos cuando ustedes viven bajo la bota de Sadam.

Sadam representa todo lo que abomina cualquier demócrata: es un dictador sanguinario, que tiene las manos manchadas con la sangre de los iraquíes que se han atrevido a oponérsele y con la de los kurdos a los que ha asesinado masivamente.

Y a ti qué te importa? -A mí me importa todo lo que tenga que ver con acabar con los nazis.

Si quiere saber qué pienso, se lo resumiré: aborrezco todos los «ismos»: comunismo, socialismo, nacionalismo, fascismo… En definitiva, todo lo que lleva el germen del totalitarismo.

If he heard her, he gave no indication, just went on about "men who take advantage" and "helpless women" and "fates worse than death." Sophie wasn't positive, but she thought she even heard the phrase "roast beef and pudding".

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

It is racist, and it was racist when it was created. The Indian Act controls, or seeks to control, the lives of all indigenous people in a way that you and I would never accept.

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

It has always been the aim of royalty and aristocracy to lower the individual liberty and independence of the common people. A baron and a minute-man could not breathe the same air.

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

I still am a virulent anti-communist. It is a bad system, an immoral system, and one that takes away the rights of people and the rights of individuals. And everywhere it's gone, it's failed.

The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

If we truly want to make America great, we need to fix this racial inequality.

Assad is unquestionably guilty of the most grievous fault and has inflicted horrors upon his people.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

Racist infrastructure has damaged districts like mine for generations.

I couldn't really say that a repressive society would result in creative art. But somehow it does help, it is an ingredient, it acts as a Catalyst to a man who is committed.

The ultimate credo of capitalism is to exploit people. It's not like this is just an incidental problem; it's inherent in the system.

Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.

As a social anarchist, I believe that capitalism itself is an inherently exploitative hierarchical situation - you do have a boss, you do have somebody in charge.

You can't segregate and humiliate people decade after decade without creating long-lasting injuries.

We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.