Quotes About Oppression

More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined.

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?

From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.

Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself.

Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.

Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.

She saw a world so terrified of Woman's mystical power that nothing would do but to obliterate the very source of that power—the natural shape of her body.

Those who genuinely want to help the movement should study the rich and powerful, not the poor and powerless...The poor and powerless already know what is wrong with their lives and those who want to help them should analyse the forces that keep them where they are. Better a sociology of the Pentagon or the Houston country club than of single mothers or inner-city gangs.

No, Wright wouldn't like the bird—a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that, too.

but a show of force by the mightiest nation on earth isn't going to do anything except convince them that their attitudes are worth holding on to. Soon they'll be martyrs and world opinion will think the British Empire nothing but a big bully too fond of waving the big stick.

They intended to found and frame a government for man, and for man alone. They wished to preserve the individuality of all; to prevent the few from governing the many, and the many from persecuting and destroying the few.

him lazy and stupid, they lashed his knuckles

Ghetto living is more than just a feeling of confinement; it is a sense of suffocation too.

The Nazis alone destroyed an estimated hundred million books during their twelve years in power.

The first recorded instance of book burning was in 213 BC, when Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang decided to incinerate any history books that contradicted his version of the past. In addition, he buried more than four hundred scholars alive.

German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men.

judicial bonfires, and even household stoves." The first recorded instance of book burning was in 213 BC, when Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang decided to incinerate any history books that contradicted his version of the past. In addition, he buried more than four hundred scholars alive.

Mao was a librarian who became a book burner.

The block had small offices and an outdoor arena where weekly slave-labor auctions were held. The slavery was permitted under an 1850 California law that allowed white people to buy Native American children as "apprentices," and to "bid" on Native Americans who were declared "vagrant," and oblige them to work off the cost of the bid. (The law, known as Act for the Government and Protection of Indians, was not repealed entirely until 1937.)

The Men hunted money and sex. The women were hunted and captured, even the white women.