Quotes About Oppression

I am the dumb, the wild, the things now dead / That men have killed for being mute and strange

Israel, from its inception in 1948, has been given the most wonderful opportunity to behave itself, and it clearly has not done so. It's flouted every single law, it's behaved outrageously, it's made a travesty of international and humanitarian law. On what basis should this state continue to be a member of the United Nations?

If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.

They steal your bread, then give you a crumb of it… Then they demand you to thank them for their generosity… O their audacity!

vincitori non ebbero pietà neppure dei militari fascisti ricoverati negli ospedali dopo essere rimasti feriti in azioni precedenti il 25 aprile. All'Ospedale militare vennero strappati dai letti e subito uccisi sette paracadutisti, uno dei quali aveva un braccio amputato.

The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.

there is a tendency in Africa that it does not matter if an African kills other Africans. Had Amin been white, free Africa would have passed many resolutions condemning him. Being black is now

The fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly (and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered): Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?

There's no democratic state that's not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

Burton and his ilk also had a distinctive philosophy: they believed that science showed that Europeans and Americans were biologically, mentally, and socially superior to others. "The savage is morally and mentally an unfit instrument for the spread of civilization except when, like the higher mammalia, he is reduced to a state of slavery," wrote August Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers,

I felt unsteady as I lead Xerxes to his seat. Women in his kingdom were but dressing for a man's bed and a satisfactory way to provide heirs. The king had once banished a queen on the advice of his counsel. Now would he accept the word of his queen and banish the adviser? Dear God, I pleaded silently, how can it be that I should change history? I am a prisoner myself – how can I asked for the freedom of a nation?

Malhadada suerte la nuestra de mujeres fuertes y temidas de los hombres! ¡Tenían que encerrarnos, humillarnos, pegarnos, para olvidar el temor que les inspirábamos y sentirse reyes!

Tanta gente se las ingeniaba para ignorar la miseria, aceptando las desigualdades como ley de vida. Y así habían sido las cosas desde siempre, pensaba. ¿Quién se atrevía a soñar en cambiar todo aquello?

For me, the Revolution sought to end mistreatment, not to democratize it.

Por maior que seja este império, ele não é mais que uma grande prisão e o imperador que detém as chaves dela é o seu carcereiro, mas os carcereiros não vivem muito melhor do que os prisioneiros.» Ou isto: «Os russos preocupam-se muito menos em ser civilizados do que em fazer crer que o são.»

a cabeça de um poderoso a rebolar no chão sempre foi um dos espectáculos mais acarinhados pelas massas.

Digamo-lo com franqueza: não há ditador mais sanguinário que o povo; só a mão severa mas justa do chefe lhe pode temperar o furor.

A única arma de que um pobre dispõe para conservar a sua dignidade é instilar o medo.

Dans l'œuvre stalinienne, il n'y a de place pour les instincts bestiaux que d'un seul. On applique à la lettre l'injonction de Lénine : « il est nécessaire de rêver », mais le seul rêve permis est celui de Staline ; tous les autres doivent être supprimés.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

I wouldn't be surprised if in our lifetime dogs and firehoses are released or opened on us. I wouldn't be surprised if a few of us get a billy club to the head. I wouldn't be surprised if, you know, some of us go to jail just like Martin Luther King did on trumped up charges. Tough times are coming.

You can try to put the lid on this group of people, but you will never silence us. You will never you can shoot me in the head, you can shoot the next guy in the head, but there will be 10 others that line up. And it may not happen today, it may not happen next week, but freedom will be restored in this land. Period. And no matter what you want to call it, it is a totalitarian state that you're headed towards.

If we continue to stand up for our rights, none of us alive today will ever have to pick up a weapon against our government. The bad news is that if those rights are watered down or taken away, the risk of tyranny will increase with each passing generation.