Quotes About Oppression

The only bombshells that strike my fancy are the ones that will free the proletariat from the shackles of wage slavery.

Government can do whatever it wants, kick the crap out of their political opponents while ignoring the crimes committed by their friends.

The closest I had ever come to seeing human nakedness before was in a movie. A documentary. It showed hundreds and hundreds of naked Jews, men, women, and children, being escorted by armed Nazi guards and barking German shepherds to their deaths. All the Jews were naked. Not undressed. Naked. And it seemed to me then, while I watched that documentary, that it wasn't just the Jews that the Nazis wanted annihilated but the very concept of nakedness as well.

What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?

Why is it, I wonder, that organizations such as yours are invariably run by pitiful human failures? By small-minded psychotics and perverts. All bullied as children, of course. Or abused by twisted parents – I'm sure you have terrible tales to confess, of your miserable youth. And now the power is in your hands, and oh how the rest of us suffer.

What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?

The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring -- all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims... for what?

Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or no power.

If you can only feel safe when everybody else feels, thinks and looks the same as you, then you're a Hood-damned coward…not to mention a vicious tyrant in the making.

witness two scenes. In one, an angry, bitter man beats another man to death in an alley in the Gadrobi District. In the other, a man of vast wealth conspires with equally wealthy compatriots to raise yet again the price of grain, making the cost of simple bread so prohibitive that families starve, are led into lives of crime, and die young. Are both acts of violence?

But Hood was not yet done with her. He swung her up again, spun and once more hammered her onto the stone. 'I have had,' the Jaghut roared, and into the air she went again, and down once more, 'enough' - with a sob the crushed, broken body was yanked from the ground again - 'of- 'your- justice!

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.

Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.

Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power.

They have learned that resistance is actually possible. The holds are beginning to slip away.

Michael Derrick Hudson is not the first person to slip into the identity of a person of color to give himself some perceived advantage. He can slip back into his life and not walk around in this world as a person of color who endures racism.

Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

'Night' may be one of the most important books that people can read today. It is a story of how hate can slowly take over a society. It shows what happens when people are dehumanized.

I finally got to watch 'Roots' in my mid-teens, on a video rental. Slowly and meticulously Roots fed its black characters through the mincing machine of American slavery. People with names, hopes and family connections were destroyed and dehumanised before my eyes.

The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash.

Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.

There is nothing romantic about teargas. Or smoke bombs or rubber bullets or sound cannons.

The black community is under attack in so many different ways.

If America oppresses, why do so many people risk their lives coming here to be oppressed?