Quotes About Oppression

There should be no censorship of mail.

We can't let censorship take over.

There shouldn't be any censorship on making a film.

I hate censorship, man. I really do.

When power is exercised exclusively at the centre, the result is rigidity of rules and alienation of the people subject to those rules.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

At a certain point, when there's a barrier between you and what's right, eventually you have to decide you're not going to allow yourself to be subjugated.

If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.

It is not Christianity, but priestcraft that has subjected woman as we find her.

Christians are being systematically exterminated.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends.

For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.

I think that most Americans feel that the Indians lost because of fair fights and superior odds and superior weaponry. That's because that's the only side of the story that's been told.

The more frightening and sort of dark and oppressive a movie is, the more free you are to explore the supernatural and explore faith. The two just somehow go hand-in-hand really nicely.

Every fair-minded person holding a position of authority must support the few who have stood up against the injustice being perpetrated in the name of blasphemy.

In Haiti you had the Duvaliers for 29 years and they were very well supported by the United States.

Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

I supported the right of oppressed people to armed struggle. That didn't mean I did it.

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

It was a reaction to when I was growing up, and women were supposed to be all blonde hair, gold suntan, and pink lips. It was a real black-and-white opposite of what was considered attractive. I was kicking against something I found really oppressive.

Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us.

There are certain things you must not say in spite of the fact that supposedly democracy means free speech. No. You are not allowed free speech. If you speak freely, you are then deemed as I was, to be a subversive.

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.