Quotes About Oppression

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

And it is as you reap comfort from being white that we suffer for being Black and people of color. This is how we are tied to each other. You see, your comfort is linked to our pain and suffering.

For me, it feels as if Black embodied existence is in a constant and unrelenting state of trauma.

It is the positive practice of freedom, not the negative struggle against particular oppression, that has lifted me above a mutilated existence.

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery. Injustice sustained at the exact degree of necessary tension to turn the cogs of the huge machine-for-the-making-of-rich-men, without bursting the boiler.

Tous les dictateurs, à toutes les époques de l'Histoire, ont invoqué la justice sociale, c'est toujours au nom de l'égalité qu'on a étranglé la Liberté, il ne peut y avoir d'égalité que sous un maître absolu.

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Grace is the most powerful force in the universe. It can transcend repression, addiction, and every other internal or external power that seeks to oppress the freedom of the human heart. Grace is where our hope lies. Journey

All the ghettoes were being wiped out. The Germans were killing all the Jews." "But why? Why?" Helena asked. "They don't need reasons," I said. "Any excuse works for them, because they have the guns and we don't.

The Vatican was decent about that sort of thing. Protecting Jews not from oppression, but from too much oppression. Condemn the Jews to degradation, to censure as deicides, well-poisoners, child-killers, yet try to prevent them from being slaughtered entirely.

They have fooled the world. Or else the world doesn't give a damn. What confounds me is that no one seems to ask what right they have to put us in prisons at all. The assumption seems to be that it's all right for Jews to be jailed and treated like dogs, provided they aren't murdered.

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.

While I would champion any campaign to support Muslim women who do not wish to cover. I would now also protest vigorously for the right of a woman to wear that covering, if it is what she wants and believes in. Ayatollah Khomeini and Jacques Chirac have much more in common than either of them would care to acknowledge. Each tried to solve overarching social problems by imposing his will on the bodies of women.

So, my good father, you go and write the order to burn that book, as your church requires of you. And I will say nothing to the printing house, as my conscience requires of me. Censura praevia or censura repressiva, the effect is the same. Either way, a book is destroyed. Better you do it than have us so intellectually enslaved that we do it for you.

There, where one burns books, one in the end burns men. —Heinrich Heine

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.

Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.

Where law ends, there tyranny begins.

Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer, my friend is blowin' in the wind.

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles.

When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.

0 liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name!

How a minority, Reaching majority, Seizing authority, Hates a minority!