Quotes About Oppression

Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.

You want us to be like good Germans, supporting the evils of our decade and then when we refused to be good Germans and came to Chicago and demonstrated, now you want us to be like good Jews, going quietly and politely to the concentration camps while you and this court suppress freedom and the truth. And the fact is I am not prepared to do that.

The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.

When we look at countries that suppress women's rights, I think that they are missing the point. Women have so much to offer.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Each and every life that has fled communism has proven how the will to pursue democracy and freedom, even in the face of oppression, can never be suppressed or silenced.

In Romania, during the communist regime, we were very culturally suppressed. At 18 years old, I wasn't allowed to wear bell-bottom jeans and eyeliner. I couldn't understand why!

I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance.

Wherever people are suppressed, revolution always begins.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.

My father was a dictator in the true German sense. He suppressed my mother.

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

I am not in the business of suppressing books.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others.

Hong Kong people stand in the front line to confront authoritarian suppression.

Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.

The rage of someone who continues to strive so hard and work so hard but is interrupted every day by society, by racism, by white supremacy, by the patriarchy - how can you not feel empathy?

White supremacy is deeply entrenched in our nation's DNA.

If you suffocate my blackness, you've got to realize that's supremacy.

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered.