Quotes About Oppression

History and socio-economic inequality and all those things had, like, borne down upon my family and my community and really sort of narrowed our choices.

For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black man's humanity was not recognized.

'Shrapnel' is based on the idea that we do colonize the solar system, but it's not clean and optimistic. The haves are putting the screws to the have-nots. The story is about the last stand of the last free colony in the solar system.

They said if you are in China you have to be sold, you have to get married. And something that still saddens me is that I actually didn't care, I was so hungry.

We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

When I was being sold into marriage, it was hard to see a future for myself.

I often compared myself with a slave. Slaves were taken forcibly from Africa, and so was I. Slaves were sold a couple of times on their way to their final destination, and so was I. Slaves suddenly were assigned to somebody they didn't choose, and so was I.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

My goal was solely to fight against the aggressors, mainly the communists, who forbid my brethren to practice their religion.

We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.

I have never felt oppressed by women or that feminism is a problem. I do think boys find it hard to like things seen as feminine. I want my son not to feel self-conscious he likes ballet and my daughter to carry on playing Han Solo; that's all.

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

For decades, my identity was political, but I've come to understand that there's no political solution when you're dealing with someone else's rules.

Only when the oppressed are heard can we have an honest solutions based dialogue.

Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.

When demagogues and dictators ban art, this is the reason: art is the great solvent of obedient fundamentalism.

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

Some men are just disgusted with me and think I should have my mouth sewn shut.

I'm a fan of the kind of political correctness that is about not promoting prejudice. But some people in America are offended by equality because when you've had privilege for so long, equality feels like oppression.

Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.

I wanted to show North Korean people that they have hope, and they can be free someday, like myself.

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.