Quotes About Oppression

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

How terrible it is to be woman...but only because of men.

It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts, To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

Men had better be without education than be educated by their rulers.

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!

The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.

Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

The two real leads in 'Children of Men' are Clive Owen and the social environment. You know, this same movie without the social environment maybe is just like a generic chase movie.