Quotes About Oppression

And another thing. There's no black market in this town. Really. You just can't get anything. And you know why?" "Listen—" "Because you've got the bloody Themes, who should be running the stupid black market, going round telling anyone that if they sell so much as a cashew nut off ticket, they'll get their legs broken. That's just not right. It's tyranny.

permanent form of cruelty.

The bottom line is that Robert always wished to be, and was, free to think for himself and to make his own political choices. Commitments have to be put in perspective to be understood, and the failure to do that was the most damaging characteristic of the McCarthy period. The most relevant political fact about Robert Oppenheimer was that in the 1930s he was devoted to working for social and economic justice in America, and to achieve this goal he chose to stand with the left.

the tyrant must "stifle everything that might give rise to two things, self-assurance and trust.

The Fall of Rome, the biggest and greatest of all Empires, was due to the Faith of people the Romans deemed weak and inconsequential. The more they tried to squash them, the stronger their faith grew until Rome, with all its might and cruelty, became the very weak and inconsequential people they looked down upon.

In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.

Our faith in the Trinity puts us under an obligation to struggle at every level, from the strictly personal to the highly organized, against all forms of oppression, injustice and exploitation. In our combat for social righteousness and "human rights", we are acting specifically in the name of the Holy Trinity.

There were moments, Hasan, when I like to think that the stars are bullet-holes. For every bullet shot by an oppressor there springs to life a star, with so great a radiance that it can never be put out, it can never be imprisoned. But if that really were true, the last three months in this city would have erased every trace of blackness from the sky.

In his prison poems, the bars on his windows are merely the grid through which he sees shooting stars, each lash of a whip is a reminder of the insecurity of tyrants, and a rumour that orders for his execution have been dispatched is reason to weep for the executioner.

First they burn the books, and then the bodies follow

George Bush doesn't care about black people, ... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food...they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us

how can a good man be a lawyer in a dictatorship?

Youth are the power that dictators hate

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. —Desmond Tutu2

Racism in America is like dust in the air. It seems invisible — even if you're choking on it — until you let the sun in. As long as we keep shining that light, we have a chance of cleaning it wherever it lands.

Douglas wondered if his friend would make it out of this alive. He realized, not for the first time, that life or death was not the most important thing. The most important thing was the mission, their own small attempt to "proclaim liberty to the captives," as the Book of Isaiah had commanded nearly three thousand years before. To engage in a war where there would be no material benefit for the victor other than the liberation of oppressed and victimized human beings.

Boney M. were not allowed to do interviews, they were not allowed to choose their costumes. They looked like slaves, and this was the producer's take.

Sometimes, I myself, even though I'm in Washington, I go quiet because there is so much intimidation around me.

We should not have to experience the fear of intimidation or retaliation in the United States.

I'd be willing to bet that any incursion throughout history in which the invading country has proclaimed it is bringing benefits to the conquered is based on a lie.

When humans invented material inequality, they came up with a way of subjugating the low-ranking like nothing ever seen before in the primate world.

The invention of the African American, or the Haitian or Jamaican, is a consequence of the transatlantic slave trade.

The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.