Quotes About Oppression

I never thought about becoming a politician. But during the military dictatorship, my grandfather was put in prison six times and my father twice. If my family and my country didn't have this history, I might be a professor somewhere today.

I've been jailed once, put in police lock-up twice, and was under house arrest twice.

I am tired of people telling me that black people are beneath a standard when we have to be twice as good all the time.

Anti-Catholicism is the last respectable prejudice. You can't hate black people anymore, of course, and you can't hate homosexuals anymore, but you can hate all the Catholics you want.

Those kids aren't dumb. But the people who run these schools want to make sure they don't get smart: they are really teaching the kids to be slaves.

There are people who want to live and then the people who want to hold them down. I've tried to not be one of the latter my entire life.

We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world.

There are so many of us, so many girls. The world wants us for our wombs or our bodies, or it doesn't want us at all.

Bashar Assad clearly doesn't want to hear anything that impugns his government.

Why are they picking on boxing? It's because the black men are so superior in boxing that they want to stop it. Well, the black man's so hungry he's got to fight.

Authoritarians tend to consolidate support by using fear, but more importantly by driving a wedge among the people that they want to control.

I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.

We are the only people on Earth asked to guarantee the security of our occupier...while Israel is the only country that calls for defense from its victims.

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

There are more African Americans under correctional control, in prison or jail, on probation or parole, than were enslaved in 1850 a decade before the civil war began.

We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression we face. War has caused more problems. We cannot embrace that path.

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.