Quotes About Oppression

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.

In the process of the Arab Spring, we have unfortunately seen a development in Syria where the regime has been oppressing its people.

Unfortunately, writing and reporting the truth is not allowed under Castro's tyrannical dictatorship.

Because we always are feeling for justice for all that the reality is, unfortunately, the justice system is skewed, and often people of color do not receive appropriate justice in this country.

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.

The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority.

In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.

Ignorance need not remove the crown on the head of a king before making him a slave

Silence is golden...but in times of tyranny it is blood red

Earth is a heaven but man often creates many hells within this heaven and a fascist country is one of the hottest and the most suffocating hell amongst all those hells!

Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to their brothers and sisters, inspiring them to follow their example.

Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.

Women have the right to mount the scaffold; they should likewise have the right to mount the rostrum.

The Monstrous Regiment of Women.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

And I cried… for all of the women who stretched their bodies for civilizations, only to find ruins.

As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed.

Religion was created by insecure men to oppress women. Religion is the basis of all political ideas and it exempts the human being to find the "I" in them.

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on in the human imagination.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?