Quotes About Oppression

Those supporters pay dollars but make us pay with blood.

The only problem was, the founders left a lot of people out of the Constitution. They left out poor people and black people and female people. It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. And it still goes on today.

The air was hot and wet, as if it had absorbed the sweat of countless bodies. It dripped also with scandal.

Every day, Anh Hoâng was shoved into the ground by the weight of the vanity cases of French wives. They, with their government clerk husbands, were touring their colony, forgetting who they were, forgetting that they had to cross oceans to move up a class.

Kanunlar doÄŸru olduklar? için deÄŸil, kanun olduklar? için yürürlükte kal?rlar. Kendilerini dinletmeleri ak?ld??? bir güçten gelir, baÅŸka bir ÅŸeyden deÄŸil. (..) Kanunlardan daha çok, daha a??r, daha geniÅŸ haks?zl?klara yol açan ne vard?r?

The mother of cruelty is cowardice.

The Black Panther Party may indeed be history, but the forces that gave rise to it are not. "They wait, for the proper season, to arise again.

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires, but what history really shows is that today's empire is tomorrow's ashes; that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.

Like all empires, the harsh and violent forms of control that have been used on the "wretched of the earth," have migrated back to the homeland in a time of decay to keep the population in check. The tyranny we have imposed on others is now being imposed on us.

It is written, we musn't forget, in the Prisonhouse of Nations —the United States of America. Here, there are more than 2.3 million men, women, and juveniles under lock and key. As theNewYork Timeshas recently reported, the U.S. has just under 5 percent of the world's population, yet it has a quarter of the world's prison population.1 In the realm of imprisonment, the United States truly is Number one.

Free Kashyyyk.

flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority.

Basie would lie on the mattress and talk endlessly, sometimes drinking from a bottle of Murree's whisky he'd bring with him, bought from one of the clandestine bars in Heer where there were locked cages for female drinkers, to prevent them from being sexually assaulted by the inebriated male clientele, as well as to stop the drunk women from killing every man in sight.

I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.

Plus la mère a été brimée comme fille, sÅ"ur, épouse, plus elle élève son fils dans le culte de la virilité.

It's because they're afraid of El Patrón

quién oye el sueño de mi boca maldita para quién hablo, qué oído dirá sí a mis palabras (de Amor, Ciudad Atribuída)

Esta gaviota vuela sobre el eterno cielo de Hanoi, como antes volaba el agresivo B-52. (de En El País de Vietnam)

ciudades misteriosas llenas de gente que lincha negros y pisa cucarachas strange cities full of people who lynch negroes and step on cockroaches (de Freedom Now)

Sabes que ese manzano fue plantado con la tierra robada a los Rodilla-Herida por el gobernador del estado? ¿Acaso tú conoces que su savia se nutre con los huesos y pelos prisioneros de San Quintín? Did you know that apple tree was planted on land stolen from Wounded Knee by the governor of the state? Perhaps you know how its sap is nourished with the prisoner bones and hair of San Quentin? (de Un Manzano de Oakland, para Angela Davis)

I'm not looking to overthrow the American government, the corporate state already has. —JOHN TRUDELL

From Chile to China to Iraq, torture has been a silent partner in the global free-market crusade.

there is no humane way to rule people against their will.