Quotes About Oppression

It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.

In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

The point is to show who is the cross and who the crucified.

It is in vain to look for the elevation of woman so long as she is degraded in marriage.

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.

In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.

The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind

America's greatest crime against the black man was not slavery or lynching, but that he was taught to wear a mask of self-hate and self-doubt.

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.

I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.

The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

A man's world, but a white man's planet.

Show me the man and I'll find you the crime.