Quotes About Oppression

Slavery and serfdom, while not unknown in tribal societies, expand enormously under the aegis of states.

Recognition is the central problem of politics because it is the origin of tyranny, imperialism, and the desire to dominate.

Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?

Donde hay poca justicia es un peligro tener razón.

Our regime is based on bayonets and blood, not on hypocritical elections.

El clasismo es una forma de violencia muy cabrona aquí en México. Es más: la misma POBREZA es una forma de violencia que los ricos imponen a los marginados de muchas formas [...]

Es también evidente afirmar que, si las condiciones político-sociales son autoritarias o, cuando menos no ciertamente democráticas, las decisiones judiciales padecerán y con ellas, muy probablemente, quienes las emiten.

Only now did I become throughly acquainted with the seducer of our people. It is not the inequality which is the real misfortune, it is the dependance.

Indeed, woman can be a machine run wild, or a machine can be a better, more subjugated, and efficient woman.

They don't guards me! They make me be dam' fool clowns for Neptuners to laugh at. 'Get sky hook! Get bucket steam-ice!' That's what them lizards-men holler at me.

The qualities which caused him to be acclaimed the leader, he possessed when he was teaching school, and splitting rails, and reading law in a judge's musty office. From the beginning he was a man among men who always upheld the right, advocated justice for the oppressed, and a square deal for all.

Relieving people of the burden of freedom in order to make them feel safe is a recurring theme in the history of authoritarianism.

The discovery that imperialism was immoral took some time to sink in. Almost a decade later a former colonial governor noted in quiet disbelief that 'there are those who believe that any form "colonialism" is inherently evil'.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.

People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all -- we were wet.

let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway.

Christianity should have taken up the cause of the poor; better yet, it should have identified with the poor. Instead, during almost the entire course of history, the Church has served as a prop of the powerful and has been on the side of exploiters and states.

of other women. Oppression is most powerful when internalized and self-imposed. Self-oppression (knowing your "place") becomes a passport to acceptance by the dominant group. Sometime fundamentalist women perpetrate crimes against their daughters by training them to act subservient to

At one point, 144 seamstresses were killed in Nantes. Their crime? They had sewn shirts for the rebels…

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization

The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights -- that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.

to see a nigger you kill a nigger.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. Freedom