Quotes About Oppression

Liberdade completa ninguém desfruta: começamos oprimidos pela sintaxe e acabamos às voltas com a Delegacia de Ordem Política e Social, mas, nos estreitos limites a que nos coagem a gramática e a lei, ainda nos podemos mexer

Os meninos eram uns brutos, como o pai. Quando crescessem, guardariam as reses de um patrão invisível, seriam pisados, maltratados, machucados por um soldado amarelo

Quando avisto essa cambada, encolho-me, colo-me às paredes como um rato assustado. Como um rato, exatamente.

He was stupid, yes; he had never had any schooling; he didn't know how to explain himself. Was he in jail because he doesn't know how to explain things right? What was wrong with his being stupid? He worked like a slave, day in and day out. [...] Was it his fault he was stupid? Who was to blame?

Someone in the women's cell was crying and cursing the fleas. Some whore probably, the kind that would take on anybody. She was no good either. Fabiano wanted to yell to the whole town, to the judge, the chief of police, the priest, and the tax collector, that nobody in there was worth a damn. He, the men squatting around the fire, the drunk, the woman with the fleas —they were all completely worthless, fit only to be hanged.

Remoeu umas coisas guturais e começou a roncar. Impossível qualquer aproximação. O isolamento em companhia de uma pessoa era mais opressivo que a solidão completa. Parecia-me que aquele homem estava morto.

Exchanges like these with Cathy always exhausted him, partly because she was so tenacious, but mainly because she was right. It was a fact of life that those with the fattest wallets and the loudest voices always got more than they deserved

Uncle Tom' did not originate in fiction. Nor did he die with the Emancipation proclamation. He is perpetuated and immortalized in the type of leadership that sells the Negro for a few 'sound American dollars.

Manifest Destiny, depicted in paintings as an angelic woman in a diaphanous white gown floating serenely, yet watchfully, over the immigrants heading west, was quite a bitch in reality. Anyone not under her wing and not part of the American vision was going to be trampled. Those outside the fold were manifestly destined to be nailed.

because most people were oppressed more or less equitably, meaning that ordinary striving rarely got you anywhere (unless it was done according to the Party's rules), Soviets seemed to value love and companionship, even if by default, more than most Westerners did.

Many young men's more immediate and important problems were abuse from their superior, on top of their material privations. Perhaps nothing more could have been expected of a political system founded on mass murder and preserved with oppression.

During lockdown, the poor and pedestrians are being beaten on the street, four wheeler owners are being worshiped on violating or letting them go away , VIPs are being allowed to move freely without face mask everywhere. Commoners are feeling humiliated and cheated

Saying, "I don't agree with you," or going so far as to say, "I think your belief structure is childish," does not amount to persecution. Insensitivity is not the same as harassment or oppression.

úgy áll ugyanis a dolog, hogy az er?vel való visszaélés nemcsak a szerencsétlen áldozatot tölti el félelemmel, hanem még inkább azt is, aki a visszaélést elköveti.

No hay nada malo en lo que hago», alegó. Lo había. La palabra asusta al poder.

La palabra asusta al poder.

frente al vasallaje y a una vida destinada a la miseria y al oprobio, los nativos se refugiaban en el alcohol y en la delicuencia. Y no solo eso: sin cultura, sin identidad, sin una tierra a la cual llamar hogar, no les quedaba más que adoptar una actitud servil. Reconocer que no había más salida que agachar la cabeza, obedecer órdenes y aceptar la iniquidad. Pueblos enteros derrotados.

Les parece de lo más normal apoyar a tiranos y golpes de estado, como si los gobernantes de otras naciones fueran meras piezas de sus jueguitos geopolíticos. El comportamiento de sus policías es más propio de un estado dictatorial que de un país que cacarea la libertad como su valor más preciado. Sus políticas llevan a la proliferación del caos, del odio, de la intolerancia.

Zapatos que les apretaban y les sacaban ampollas y que tu padre impedía que dejaran de calzar porque sin zapatos ningún indio podía llegar a ser alguien. Los ingenieros, los abogados, los maestros no calzaban huaraches.

Este país se divide en dos: en los que tienen miedo y en los que tienen rabia. Ustedes, burgueses, son los que tienen miedo ... Nosotros vivimos con rabia. Siempre con rabia. Nada poseemos.

Nos hiciste ver que la injusticia no solo derivaba de un conflicto de clases, sino también de razas. «La democracia real», sostenías, «solo podrá obtenerse cuando los pueblos originarios alcancen el poder político. La revolución socialista será ineficaz en los países colonizados por los blancos si no se garantiza el acceso a gobernar a quienes les arrebataron sus tierras».

No hay diferencia entre genocidio rápido y genocidio lento. Ambos son exterminio. Lo único que cambia es la velocidad a la que lo ejecutan».

Este país se divide en dos: en los que tienen miedo y en los que tienen rabia. Ustedes, burgueses, son los que tienen miedo.

In jail you learn that there are two kinds of guys in this world - and I don't care if they're human or bloodsuckers - there's the ones that take it and the ones that hand it out. And this guy, man - this guy gives it out like fucking candy . . .