Quotes About Oppression

great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

Of my ancestry I know almost nothing. In the slave quarters, and even later, I heard whispered conversations among the coloured people of the tortures which the slaves, including, no doubt, my ancestors on my mother's side, suffered in the middle passage of the slave ship while being conveyed from Africa to America.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.

Non so se mi sono espresso bene. Il fatto e che, col suo bagaglio d'esperienza, l'adulto guasta gli anni della propria infanzia, li contamina con la sensazione di oppressione che prova. Come se qualcuno che ha vissuto per lungo tempo in uno splendido giardino, durante una passegiata piu lunga del solito, si accorgesse che il parco e delimitato dal muro di una prigione di cui ignorava l'esistenza.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. — George Orwell, 1984

What a bad god is yours, white man, that you can make me worship him only by force and not by persuasion!

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.

A gentleman takes a woman on her own terms, and in doing so he puts the lie to ideological drivel about oppression.

If an oppressor can shackle a people in chains and eradicate even the slightest remembrance of their former life of freedom and concomitantly assassinate their hope for future freedom, it may be possible to convince the oppressed that the chains around their wrists, ankles, and minds are natural.

Generally speaking, these Christians want basic changes inspired by the gospel to infuse their traditional, broader understanding of "divine law." They want the right to choose their own clergy. They want an end to feudal taxes and fees they consider burdensome and unjust. They want access to shared woods, fields, and streams for their use. And they want the abolition of traditional serfdom and the oppressive conditions it entails.

Considering what his grandfather had been through a generation before during the infamous witch hunt for Communist sympathizers, Price saw bitter historical parallels.

There are forces in the world today, Mr. Winsocki, that are invisibly working to make us all carbon copies of one another. Forces that crush us into molds of each other. You walk down the street and never see anyone's face, really. You sit faceless in a movie, or hidden from sight in a dreary living room watching television. When you pay bills, or car fares or talk to people, they see the job they're doing, but never you.

for a people with a heritage of enslavement, evil is a concept of those who forged the shackles, not those who wore them.

AM said it with the shriek of babies being ground beneath blue–hot rollers.

When critics surrender to the prevailing orthodoxy, the author says they adopt the rhetoric of an occupied country, one that expects no liberation from liberation.

The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn't be worth living in.

Persecution comes from people who are prejudiced.

Mr. Finch, if you was a nigger like me, you'd be scared, too.

Hanya karena kita telah tertindas selama seratus tahun sebelum kita mulai melawan, bukanlah alasan bagi kita untuk tidak berusaha menang.

but you know they're still doing it. Stoppin' 'em just made 'em go underground. Bill says he wouldn't be surprised if there was another Nat Turner Uprisin', we're sittin' on a keg of dynamite and we just might as well be ready," Hester said.

about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people, too.

Para mí es un misterio que sigan portándose tan bien después de llevar cien años soportando que les nieguen sistemáticamente que son seres humanos.

Why did you run?" "I was scared, suh." "Why were you scared?" "Mr. Finch, if you was a nigger like me, you'd be scared, too.

Old Mr. Bob Ewell accused him of rapin' his girl an' had him arrested an' put in jail—