Quotes About Oppression

Those who know the normal life of the poor... will realize well enough that without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

Do not expect justice where might is right.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich

Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.

How many sepoys were brought by the Musalmans? How many Englishmen are there? Where, except in India, can be had millions of men who will cut the throats of their own fathers and brothers for six rupees? Sixty millions of Musalmans in seven hundred years of Mohammedan rule, and two millions of Christians in one hundred years of Christian rule - what makes it so?

Like all persecuted minority groups, they strike back by forming cabals, by "taking over" certain spheres of activity (in the arts, for instance), and by purposely provocative behavior.

In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue?… Under which of the old tyrannical governments of Europe is every sixth man a slave, whom his fellow-creatures may buy, and sell, and torture?

I have always been scared of you,With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo.And your neat mustacheAnd your Aryan eye, bright blue.Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You—

The brown world, like the yellow world, is to-day in acute reaction against white supremacy.

For four hundred years the white man had added continent to continent in his imperial progress, equipped with resistless sea-power and armed with a mechanical superiority that crushed down all local efforts at resistance. In time, therefore, the colored races accorded to white supremacy a fatalistic acquiescence, and, though never loved, the white man was usually respected and universally feared. During

Heaven or hell, same regime just different Dictator.

Dayadhvam: I have heard the keyTurn in the door once and turn once onlyWe think of the key, each in his prisonThinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

Under standing orders from General Lee, the Army of Northern Virginia enslaved any and all black persons it could seize—in Virginia, Maryland, even Pennsylvania during the Gettysburg Campaign. It made no distinctions between those who had escaped during the war, those born free, or those freed before the war under the laws of Southern states. If they were black, the men in gray took them as property.

All order has genocide hidden in its belly. Give it nine months and it will give birth, under clement conditions of course, to a holocaust.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

we have red triangles as politicals, so we let the

Our contemporary poverty is as transparent as glass and as invisible as the air. Our poverty is kilometer-long lines, the constant elbowing, spiteful officials, trains late without reason, the water cut off by some disaster (...), the monotony of living without any hope whatsoever, the decaying historic cities, the provinces emptying the rivers poisoned. Our poverty is the grace of the totalitarian state by whose grace we live.

Was stworzy? ten re?ym. Jeste?cie wydzielin? tego systemu, ?ebrem z cia?a tej tyranii. Wy jeste?cie z Biesów Dostojewskiego, a nie z opowiada? ?eromskiego czy Struga.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.