Quotes About Oppression

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim.

Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.

I am amazed at the facility with which some men follow in the wake of slavery.

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

There's a black man inside of me just trying to make bail.

Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.

We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.

An armed man will kill an unarmed man with monotonous regularity.

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?

I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.

He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.

A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

As is the case with many Middle Eastern nations, women are nowhere near equal to men when it comes to basic freedoms and rights that we take for granted every day.

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

Man is everywhere still in chains.

While the new Legionnaire man eliminated his enemies in the name of God, with a cross in his hand, the new Communist man eliminated God altogether and stood on His pedestal. They were both equally thirsty for blood.

The heaviest shackles and chains one can wear are those they cannot see. A slave with unseen shackles is the most bound.