Quotes About Oppression

The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own time.

When I was young, I also saw a lot of injustices around me lived by women.

I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.

Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

Poverty is rooted in injustice.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

Injustice drives me crazy!

There is so much injustice in the world. Poverty and war.

I believe that there are issues in this country - many issues, too many to name. It's not one particular issue. But there are people out there that feel there are injustices being made and happening in our country on a daily basis.

Too many Black lives have been lost to injustice and brutality in this country.

When I was 10 and 11, my dream was to be a boy. I saw that there were so many injustices that women had to live with around me. I didn't want to have that; I wanted to have the freedom that little boys had.

It is so important for people to speak out if they see any injustices.

Yes, I went through overt racism as a footballer in the 80s and early 90s but that was, or is, nothing compared to what the average black person in the inner cities of England goes through every day.

The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

I think there is an instinct out there to rid us of our masters.

Brazil imported more enslaved Africans than any other American nation and was the last country in the hemisphere to abolish the institution, in 1888.

How many women have been in a mental institution because they've been called crazy when they're just not allowed to be honest or be who they are?

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

Under the rule of a repressive whole, liberty can be made into a powerful instrument of domination.