Quotes About Oppression

We blew up your mine. You burned my district to the ground. We've got every reason to kill each other. So do it. Make the Capitol happy. I'm done killing their slaves for them." "I'm not their slave," the man mutters. "I am," I say.

if the districts lose, there's still a chance of leniency for you.

Does anyone have any other comments?" "Wash her face," says Dalton. Everyone turns to him. "She's still a girl and you made her look thirty-five. Feels wrong. Like something the Capitol would do.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.

In some ways, District 13 is even more controlling than the Capitol.

Desearía demostrarle al Capitolio que no soy una pieza más de sus juegos. —Peeta Mellark.

His rough treatment of his daughter and servants and his interference in the relationship between Marius and his father make Gillenormand the villain.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. —C. S. Lewis

It is our sincere hope that this book helps support Americans who don't believe women in this country are oppressed, who know government is not the solution to women's problems, who don't believe marriage and motherhood are outdated institutions, who think men are as important as women, who think gender roles are good and exist for a reason, and who see the mainstream media for who they are.

Panem today Panem tomorrow Panem FOREVER!!!

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Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don't know if it's ever not somewhere.

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

We will defend ourselves, and we have full rights to do so. If the authorities try to destroy us, we have the right to rise up. Sooner or later this will happen.

I've been locked up for not having insurance, only to be released. I mean, this sort of thing is just par for the course when you're Black or brown in America.

I know I did 'Establishment Blues,' and I said 'This is not a song it's an outburst' and I'd play it, I never did describe it as a rant - R-A-N-T - but the thing is it's exactly that. Sometimes it sounds like that, but there's a lot out there on the everyday man, on the plight of the little guy.

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

For an overwhelming majority of my life, my country has been a source of pain, fear, and embarrassment.

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.