Quotes About Oppression

Despite all the talk about freedom of speech, freedom of the press, electoral freedom, and so on, I dare say it would be a shock to know what the common man thinks about the problems which confront the world. The common man is always cleverly set off one against the other, children are always ruled out, young people are ordered to conform and obey, and the views of the wise, the saintly, the true servers of mankind, are forever scorned as impractical.

Puissance, justice, histoire: à bas!

perpetrated on a helpless world of idiots.

The most ignorant and degenerate of them will be asked to shoulder a gun and fight for a civilization which has brought them nothing but misery and degradation.

En mi opinión, a ningún hombre se le ha sometido a una humillación mayor que a Moctezuma; ninguna raza ha sido exterminada más despiadadamente que la del indio americano; ninguna tierra ha sido violada de modo execrable e infame como lo fue California por los buscadores de oro. Siento vergüenza al pensar en nuestros orígenes: nuestras manos están empapadas de sangre y crimen.

Cuando pienso en algunos persas, los hindúes, los árabes que conocí, cuando pienso en el carácter de que daban muestras, en su gracia, en su ternura, en su inteligencia, en su santidad, escupo a los conquistadores blancos, los degenerados británicos, los testarudos alemanes, los relamidos y presumidos franceses.

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

These are the woes of Slaves; They glare from the abyss; They cry, from unknown graves, We are the Witnesses!

Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head; And a shout ascends on high, For men's souls are tired of the Turks, And their wicked ways and works, That have made of Ak-Hissar A city of the plague; And the loud, exultant cry That echoes wide and far Is: Long live Scanderbeg!

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free

This slavery breeds ugly passions in man.

Who ain't a slave? Tell me that.

Oh, horrible vultureism of earth! from which not the mightiest whale is free.

The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceausescu's rule.

I'm fighting back against years and years and years of the cultural and the political left telling people to sit down and shut up.

It's very easy to vilify someone when they're objectified. The right wing did it to Nancy Pelosi for years and years and years.

Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for little pay. This was a full system of human subjugation.

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people.

In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

I like to be able to raise people's consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end of the oppression, we have a duty.

Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.