Quotes About Oppression

The Internal Revenue Service is more ruthless than the Gestapo. Abolish the IRS! Stamp out organized crime!

And if you look at the reality in the United States, where you have more than 40 million people below the poverty line and 42 million on food stamps, and then you look at poverty around the world, clearly the way we're running the engine of capitalism is not serving us well.

Our founding fathers declared independence from Great Britain because they were dissatisfied with the laws and policies that they believed abridged their freedoms. Had they taken the stance that many want our professional athletes to take - to just shut up and honor your country no matter what - we would be living in British colonies.

The people in Cuba, they know what I stand for, and there's a lot of people in Cuba that stand for the same. But they can't say it.

I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.

The truth is, women don't stand up, they're too hushed, they don't like to say stuff.

World leaders and, particularly, Muslim religious leaders need to stand up and protect the oppressed.

It's important to credit the brave people that take chances to stand up to regimes. They're the star.

The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.

I will never apologize for standing up against oppression and injustice in Israel or anywhere else.

I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation.

Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we're fighting against. They're just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.

The character of Robin Hood stands for the deep anger of the dispossessed against the ruling classes.

A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.

White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.

No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.

The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country.

The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.

Actually, some of the things I experienced as a child still linger on; what the white man has done to the black people in the south!