Quotes About Oppression

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.

A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.

The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance of oppression.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

Where the hand of tyranny is long we do not see the lips of men open with laughter.

Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.

Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.

There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.

The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.

Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

When the Muslims deliver the indictment of the American system, it is not the white man per se that is being doomed.

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men.

Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.