Quotes About Oppression

Durante tres años, la política de requisas iba a provocar miles de sublevaciones y de motines, que degeneraron en verdaderas guerras campesinas reprimidas con la mayor violencia.

Zeks - izraz koji pzna?ava zatvorenik iz sovjetskih koncentracionih logora bili su "moljeni" silom - da vjeruju u sistem koji ih pot?injava. U Kini, koncentracioni logoraš postao je student: on mora studirati pravu misao partije, i reformisati vlastitu pogrešnu misao.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave.

An 1888 police justice came right out and declared that for women only, simply being out at night was probable cause. The way he saw it, "no decent, respectable woman would be found in the street without an escort after 10 P.M.," and therefore, he told a Women's Prison Association investigator, "any woman alone in the street after that hour ought to be arrested." Accordingly, at night police would sometimes sweep up women by the dozens.

As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.

Nevermore shall men make slaves of others! Not in Asgard--not on Earth--not any place where the hammer of Thor can be swung--or where men of good faith hold freedom dear!

For the book unwritten is the book burned.

That is the way of management from time immemorial, in medieval feudal states, communist dictatorships, and capitalist conference rooms alike. It is the way the powerful treat those less so, and it is the human condition.

When a general gave unwanted advice at a meeting, Saddam ordered him to stand, and shot him six times. —FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT, SADDAM HUSSEIN WEB HIT

Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.

The importation and enslavement of millions of lack people, the destruction of the American Indian population, the internment of Japanese American, the use of napalm against civilians in Vietnam, all are harsh policies that originated in the authority of a democratic nation, and were responded to with the expected obedience.

Feminism has two sides: Along with the struggle against oppression, it's also always been about taking female experiences seriously. After all, women haven't been twiddling their thumbs for the last ten thousand years; they have been raising the entire population of the earth. And the insights they have attained from that are just as valuable as the tradition of mostly solitary male philosophers and theologians.

Bize bir ÅŸey yapmad?lar, sadece mutlak hiçliÄŸe soktular, çünkü dünyada hiçbir ÅŸeyin insan ruhu üzerinde hiçlik kadar bask? yapmayaca?? bilinir....

Bize hiçbir ÅŸey yapmad?lar, bizi tümüyle hiçliÄŸin içine yerleÅŸtirdiler, çünkü bilindiÄŸi gibi yeryüzünde hiçbir ÅŸey insan ruhuna hiçlik kadar bask? yapmaz.

La máquina de 1792, la guillotina, inventada para suprimir toda resistncia contra el Estado, es una herramienta torpe comparada con la maquinaria policíaca, combinada y refinada por la superioridad espiritual del José Fouché de 1799.

Bize hiçbir ÅŸey yap?lmad?, yaln?zca tam bir hiçliÄŸin içine koyulduk, çünkü bilindiÄŸi gibi dünyada hiçbir ÅŸey insan ruhunu hiçlik kadar bask? alt?na alamaz.

Siempre que un pueblo recurre a la violencia para arrebatarles la libertad a otros, pierde con ello, en una enigmática venganza, la fuerza portentosa de su propio aislamiento.

How to escape the tyrannical demands that the state and Church seek to impose on me? How to protect that unique part of my soul against enforced submission to rules and measures dictated from outside?

Bir insan? haftalarca, hatta aylarca ve durmamacas?na korkmaya zorlayan ve güvensizlikle onun maneviyat?n? bozan, arzular?n? uyuÅŸturan biri, ba???lanamaz. Ä°nsanlar, insanlar?n bir k?sm?, ya da içlerinden bir grup, tek bir kiÅŸinin bask?c?l???na uzun süre katlanamaz, ondan uzun süre nefret etmeden. Bu kin, dizginlenmiÅŸlerin kini, bütün çevrelerde alttan alta kaynar.

insanl???n en dikkate ÅŸayan baÅŸar?lar?n?n hemen her zaman ak?t?lan kanlarla lekelenmesi ve en büyük iÅŸlerin üstesinden zalimlerin gelmesii nsanl???n ebedi lanetidir!" syf- 146

Escucha las voces de los pequeños y los débiles, de las mujeres que se entregaron en vano, de las prostitutas riéndose de sus miserias, el rencor tenebroso de quienes están siempre enfermos. A los solitarios, ante quienes jamás se posó una sonrisa. Escucha a los niños que sollozan y se lamentan. Y los gritos impotentes de las que fueron seducidas en secreto.

Am liebsten hätte sie geschrien oder mit den Fäusten getobt, sich freizumachen von dem Grauen dieser Erinnerung, die fest wie ein Angelhaken in ihrem Gehirn saß, dieses wüste Gesicht mit seinem höhnischen Lachen, dieser Dunst von Gemeinheit, der aufstieg vom schlechten Atem der Proletarierin, dieser wüste Mund, der voll Haß ihr hart bis ins Gesicht die niedrigen Worte gespien, und die gehobene rote Faust, mit der sie ihr gedroht hatte.

Alle volkeren voelen nu dat er een vreemde schaduw breed en zwaar boven hun leven hangt. Maar wij, die nog de wereld van de individuele vrijheid hebben gekend, wij weten en kunnen getuigen dat Europa zich ooit zorgeloos verheugde in zijn caleidoscopische kleurenspel. En wij gruwen als wij zien hoe vol schaduwen, duister, vol slavernij en kerkers onze wereld dankzij zijn suïcidale razernij geworden is.