Quotes About Oppression

The poor devils. They thought a king would make them free.

He cuts out the one thing that makes them women.

criminals more readily than any other State would do, till the time comes

In The Gulag Archipelago, for example, Alexander Solzhenitsyn remarks that Shakespeare's evildoers, Macbeth notably among them, stop short at a mere dozen corpses because they have no ideology.

Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.

If you can't be really good at anything, then the only way to be able to prove you are superior is to make someone else inferior. It is this rampaging need in humanity which has, since pre-history, driven a man to stand on the neck of his neighbor, a nation to enslave another, a race to tread on a race. But it is also what men have always done to women.

Never in all history has man had to face such terrible dangers. He is at the point where he is no longer sure of being able to control the situation. The economic, political, and military systems he has established have turned against him and imposed themselves upon him.

The Third World War will not be unleashed by the great powers; it will break out first in the zones of famine and oppression.

Misogyny not only for Joyce Banda but for women.

That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.

It's hard to explain exactly what it feels like to be judged. There's a shame to it. Even when you know you're innocent. It still feels like you are coated in something dirty and evil.

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can't jump on the Internet to freedom.

A lot of libertarians and ultra-capitalists like to put out this idea that competition makes for better creativity. But it's just because we don't see all the creativity that's been crushed.

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.

A woman's whole life is spent making chicken curry while her husband works. Then, any time he likes, he can kick her out.

The Congress and its kin parties such as the BJP are up to grab the rights of Dalits.

We're all burdened by our history of racial inequality. It's created a kind of smog that we all breathe in, and it has prevented us from being healthy.

Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.

What we see before us is a politics devoid of kindness and truth... today, politics is not being used in the service of the people: it is being used to crush them, not to lift them up.

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.