Quotes About Oppression

A few days after my new state occupied my village, I became a prisoner of war rather than a citizen.

Tis to work and have such pay As just keeps life from day to day In your limbs, as in a cell For the tyrants' use to dwell, … 'Tis to be slave in soul And to hold no strong control Over your own wills, but be All that others make of ye.

at every stage of history our concern must be to dismantle those forms of authority and oppression that survive from an era when they might have been justified in terms of the need for security or survival or economic development, but that now contribute to—rather than alleviate—material and cultural deficit. If

When you conquer somebody and suppress them, you have to have a reason for it. You can't just say 'I'm a son of a bitch' and I wanted to rob them. So you have to say it's for their good or they deserve it or they actually benefit from it and we're helping them and so on.

Recall Bernard Fall's estimate that by April 1965, before the first North Vietnamese battalion was detected in the South, more than 160,000 "Viet Cong" had fallen "under the crushing weight of American armor, napalm, jet bombers and, finally, vomiting gases.

The struggle against slavery went on forever, the struggle for women's rights has been going on for centuries, the effort to overcomewage slavery—that's been going on since the beginnings of the industrial revolution, we haven't advanced an inch. In fact, we're worse off than we were a hundred years ago in terms of understanding the issues. Well, okay, you just keep struggling.

Un estudio concluye que «Estados Unidos tenía más muertes al final del siglo XIX debido a la violencia laboral, en términos absolutos y como proporción de la población total, que cualquier otro país salvo la Rusia zarista».3 El término «violencia laboral» es una forma educada de referirse a la violencia del Estado y de la seguridad privada contra los obreros. Eso continuó hasta finales de la década de 1930;

from 1960—remember the date—from 1960 to "the Soviet collapse in 1990, the numbers of political prisoners, torture victims, and executions of nonviolent political dissenters in Latin America vastly exceeded those in the Soviet Union and East European satellites.

Civil society is hardly more than a conspiracy by the rich to guarantee their plunder.

dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to social liberation.

si quieres derribar un gobierno, armas a su ejército y, por supuesto, haces difícil que funcione el gobierno civil.

Washington apoya a dictadores y bloquea democracia y desarrollo, como hacen sus aliados. En

With hindsight, of course, I can see how brilliantly institutionalized the sexism was at Newsweek. For every man, an inferior woman. For every male writer, a female drone. For every flamboyant inventor of a meaningless-but-unknown detail, a young drudge who could be counted on to fill it in.

I'll just go rub some salt in her wounds,then i think I'll run out and kick some puppies on my way to foreclosing on my quota of widows and orphans.

And she never had, Doug mused, because war and politics go for the big view and trample all over the little guy. France during the Revolution or a steamy pit of a jungle in Nam. It never changed. He knew just what it felt like to be helpless. He wasn't going to feel that way ever again.

There have been witch-hunts throughout time. Here, in Europe, in every corner of the world. Even when most stopped believing, or admitting to a belief, in witchcraft, there were hunts. Nazism, McCarthyism, the KKK, and so on. Nothing more than fanatics, with power, pushing their own agendas and finding enough weak minds to do the dirty work." And

De um modo geral, as vítimas da história, os grupos menos poderosos que foram derrotados, têm tido apenas uma pequena oportunidade de serem recordados. O principal quadro de referência do que é recordado como história continua sendo até hoje um Estado, e os livros de história ainda são, sobretudo, crônicas de Estados.

It was at 'The Little Lodge' I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced … Mrs Everest produced a book called Reading without Tears. It certainly did not justify its title in my case … [When] the Governess was due to arrive, I did what so many oppressed peoples have done in similar circumstances: I took to the woods. I

In October a decree barred non-Aryans (or persons married to non-Aryans) from work as editors. Nazi officials denounced "Jewish culture" in literature and the cinema; storm troopers burned books.1

The Ittihad also persecuted substantial numbers of Greeks, Jews, and other minority groups, in some cases deporting them along with the Armenians

One of the things they desired most desperately was freedom of religion, based on the premise that Europe wasn't religious enough.

Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

No, whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she's always just some passive object to fulfill a man's purpose.

History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.