Quotes About Oppression

Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.

I don't want anything to affect my freedom, and we don't want Saudi Arabia to be another Iran.

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart.

The Arab world is facing its own version of an Iron Curtain, imposed not by external actors but through domestic forces vying for power.

We are less than honest and commit a grave error if we insist that what happened to Rodney G. King was isolated and an exceptional case. The poor know better.

There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

If you're a black woman at an Ivy League school, there is no free speech for me because they're already pissed that I'm there.

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

I'd been going to jail for like, 10 years before the Stonewall.

You see, you can't put joblessness in a jail cell.

I am in jail for defending human rights, not independence.

If I lose these tax-evasion cases and others filed by the Philippine government, I could go to jail for 10 to 15 years.

Slavery was legal. Japanese interment was legal in this country. Segregation was legal.

I married a man who was jealous about everything. If I got enthusiastic about a book, about a flower, about a place, about a human being - jealous. 'Don't do it! Stop.' It was depressing, and I couldn't take it.

I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.

Racism is not just slavery and Jim Crow. It is the daily violence that is enacted on our communities each and every day we live in this White supremacist society.

Even after Jim Crow was supposed to not be a part of the South anymore, there were still ways in which you couldn't get away from it. And I think once I got to Brooklyn, there was this freedom we had.

We have always policed the bodies of people of color, and black people in particular. The Jim Crow South is a classic example. White flight in the North. School segregation. Gerrymandering.

Ben Carson said black people worked for less. I have breaking news: we built this joint for free. We didn't build it for less.

For bleeding inwards and shut vapours strangle soonest and oppress most.