Quotes About Oppression

Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

It would bring tears in your eyes to make you think of all those years, the type of brain-washing that this man will use in America to keep us separated from our own people.

But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your lash also upon his back, tell him, that be has nothing to do either with the load or the lash.

For you in the West to hear the phrase 'All men are created equal' is to draw a yawn. For us, it's a miracle. We're starting out at rock bottom, man. But South Africa does have soul.

If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

Liberty isn't a thing you are given as a present. You can be a free man under a dictatorship. It is sufficient if you struggle against it.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own; let us get out, get away from his wicked reign and go for ourselves.

Ooh, ah, ooh, ah, that's the sound of the men working on the chain gang.

...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule.

Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man.

Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his pocket, he is half consoled, even though he cannot spend it.

What has gone wrong with the men who are ruling I'd like to know who they think they are fooling They told us that torture was over and gone but everyone knows the same torture goes on

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.