Quotes About Oppression

When the voices of democracy are silenced, freedom becomes a hollow concept. No man or woman should be sentenced to the shadows of silence for something he or she has said or written.

The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good.

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.

The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the corruption they bring into the hearts of their victims.

I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.

In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

Flyaway, problem hair is the enemy of feminism, and was probably invented by the Man to crush Susan Sontag.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.

In Democracy, man exploits man; in Communism, it's the other way round.

When dictators and tyrants seek to destroy the freedoms of men, their first target is the legal profession and through it the rule of law.

The struggle for freedom is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities, sometimes of a minority of but one man gainst the majority.

Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.

the federal government needs to be scaled back to a size where he can personally stomp it to death with steel-toed boots.

But Jack was not Polish scum of the earth, barefoot and chained to the land, or even French scum of the earth, in wooden clogs and in thrall to the priest and the tax-farmer, but English scum of the earth in good boots, equipped with certain God-given rights that were (as rumor had it) written down in a Charter somewhere, and armed with a loaded gun.