Quotes About Oppression

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

Free men have arms; slaves do not.

The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.

It is sometimes better to be a dead man than a live woman.

Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals

How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.

We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.

The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

Communism denies God, enslaves men, and destroys justice.

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.

Both church and state claiming to be of divine origin have assumed divine right of man over woman; while church and state have thought for man, man has assumed the right to think for woman.

This is white man's integration, an integration based on exploitative values

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

Any situation in which some men prevent others from engaging in the process of inquiry is one of violence;… to alienate humans from their own decision making is to change them into objects.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

Drug dealer buy Jordans, crackhead buy crack. And a white man get paid off of all of that.

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys