Quotes About Oppression

Nothing saddens me more Than Nigger, one whose master has no Lord. No word leaves me more graced by shame.

The 'Declaration of Independence' begins: 'All men are created equal'. What they really meant was 'All men are created equal – unless they happen to be Indian, black or female'!)

Help! Help! I'm being repressed!

Hattaway, an insider and chronicler of the UCM, gives a picture of what the church could face in our hostile Western world: "Apparently the [Chinese] government is using a new method to deal with people when they arrest them. Instead of beating them, they are drugging them with a mind-altering chemical that diminishes the person's mental capacity."23 The Shandong Revival in China was perhaps one

People associated their emperor with a scale of horror fully comparable with Auschwitz – and perhaps worse. They.,were prepared to believe that living men and women nailed to posts,'•soaked in oil and set on fire were used to light a party, because the public enjoyment of torture was part of the fabric of their state. Death screams were part of the fun.

The world of the Druids had been destroyed and would not be revived. But the power of Rome was so much more brutal, more inhuman, more oppressive that it would not need an invasion to get rid of it. It withered because it was so hated by the people who had to endure it. And because most of them saw no point to it any more.

We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

They want to break the only thing we have left, our spirits. I will not let them. No matter what they do to me.

Once upon a time..They came from Europe, yielding swords, they robbed, raped, conquered Africa , and gave us The Ten Commandments.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

There is no paradise, in the estimation of the believers in the Divine Unity, more exalted than to obey Gods commandments, and there is no fire in the eyes of those who have known God and His signs, fiercer than to transgress His laws and to oppress another soul, even to the extent of a mustard seed. On the Day of Resurrection God will, in truth, judge all men, and we all verily plead for His grace.

A society can never be free without women's liberation

The intersection of multiple forms of oppression complicates the experience of trauma and the trauma recovery process (Holzman, 1996).

Scotland resented the foreign domination of England.

It is nothing new to find that the sublime becomes the cover for something low. That is how potential victims are kept in line.

Hace algunos años, de pronto me encontré en las barriadas argelinas de París tomando fotografías para un reportaje que estaba preparando. Poco faltó para que me lincharan. Tiempo después entendí que en Occidente nos vemos unos a otros como a países que hubiéramos conquistado. Hacemos lo que nos da la gana con el rostro y el cuerpo de las personas que tenemos alrededor. Colonizamos sus destinos. Les robamos sus sufrimientos y nos aprovechamos de su historia.

Thus is order ensured: some have to play the game because they cannot otherwise live, and those who could live otherwise are kept out because they do not want to play the game. It is as if the class from which independent intellectuals have defected takes its revenge, by pressing its demands home in the very domain where the deserter seeks refuge.

in the antagonistic society, the relationship of the generations is also one of competition, behind which stands naked violence.

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts. Ruthless toward itself, the Enlightenment has eradicated the last remnant of its own self-awareness. Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myths.

Una tale uguaglianza in cui scompaiono le differenze favorisce nascostamente la disuguaglianza.

Il mondo nuovo è un unico campo di concentramento che si crede un paradiso, non essendoci nulla da contrapporgli.

Toda "cultura pura" tem causado mal-estar aos porta-vozes do poder

Condescension, and thinking oneself no better, are the same. To adapt to the weakness of the oppressed is to affirm in it the pre-condition of power, and to develop in oneself the coarseness, insensibility and violence needed to exert domination.