Quotes About Oppression

She could leave them. She could break free and go her own way. It would be frightening, but it couldn't be worse than staying, watching this toxic dance of theirs, letting their world become her world until there was nothing left of her at all, until she was as small as a comma.

All my life I've been told to make no noise, don't want too much, be grateful for any scrap that came my way. And I've done that. I thought if I just did what women are supposed to do and played by the rules, it would Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I don't know Ã¢â'¬Â¦ change. But the way we're treated…" "It's unfair," he said. "It's wrong," she said. "This

Folks who are from the wrong place, or have the wrong color skin, or speak the wrong language, or pray to the wrong God.

Oh, and they culled our names from the relief rolls today. If you can pick cotton, you have to. No state relief." "We heard. The growers bullied the state into it. They're calling it the No Work, No Eat policy. They're afraid that relief will allow you to feed your children while you strike for better wages.

Isabelle had heard this criticism all her life, but why should she hold her tongue? No one listened to her either way.

Bullies were bullies; their defining characteristic was the need to exert power over the powerless. Who was more powerless than a child?

This is what they have done to us. We are afraid of our own shadows." She

be asphyxiated.

the SS are Ã¢â'¬Â¦ brutes. The Allied victories in Africa are hitting us hard. And this final solution for the Jews Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is an evil impossible to comprehend. I…" He

But, it was a lie. For people like us, anyway. Folks who are from the wrong place, or have the wrong color skin, or speak the wrong language, or pray to the wrong God.

We came to find a better life, to feed our children. We aren't lazy or shiftless. We don't want to live the way we do. It's time," she said. "Time to say, No more. No more company store cheating us and keeping us poor. No more lowering wages. No more using us up and spitting us out and pitting us against each other. We deserve better. No more.

You see now," Jack said. "A fight like this isn't romantic. I was in San Francisco when the National Guard went after strikers with bayonets." "People died that day," Natalia said. "Strikers. They called it Bloody Thursday.

Jews. Communists. Homosexuals. Freemasons. Jehovah's Witnesses. Do you know these people?

All my life I've been told to make no noise, don't want too much, be grateful for any scrap that came my way. And I've done that. I thought if I just did what women are supposed to do and played by the rules, it would Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I don't know Ã¢â'¬Â¦ change. But the way we're treated…" "It's unfair," he said. "It's wrong," she said.

Didier. Anyway, there is a man, a printer, risking his life to make tracts that we can distribute. Maybe if we can get the French to

German woman yanked Isabelle forward. She stumbled along, her feet screaming in pain

That box there. The empty one. Separate the Jews born in France from those born elsewhere. We are only interested in foreign-born Jews. Men, women, and children." "Why?" "They're Jews. Who cares? Now get to work.

They are erasing us, and we are helping them.

If omnipotent sadists had set out to take an extremely good, well-functioning piece of our political economy and social structure and make it undemocratic and oppressive, this is what their scheme would've looked like.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Menschen haben immer Menschen gequält, heute sieht das nur anders aus.

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Turner was a lousy fighter, an inept swordsman, and most of the people he tried to kill didn't die by his hand. His sole strength was his superior brain. He became a leader of men because he had developed his mind by reading, which happened to be illegal. Coincidence?

Unless there is something to free men into, the act of freeing is simply a protest of slavery.