Quotes About Oppression

Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment.

There's so many times when you see into the lives of these women in Gilead, and it's just unbearable. It's a fate that's just, I don't even know how to say it. I don't have words.

There are so many things going on in this world that are unbelievable. A lot of gun violence and police brutality.

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

Wars are fought for the benefit of oligarchs, triumphs bought with the blood of peons.

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

In war everybody is a prisoner.

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.

Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort.

Always remember that a soldier's pack is lighter than a slave's chains.

I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.

War is worthless except for ending slavery, Nazism, fascism, and communism. Other than that, war is pointless.

War is horrible, but slavery is worse.

Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

Every modern war has had its roots in exploitation.

They didn't give their lives for their country! their lives were taken from them by their government.

Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.

When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it.