Quotes About Oppression

Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country's cultural standards.

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

The capitalist class shoots down mothers and children. It stops at nothing, no matter how monstrous, to prevent the organization of the workers.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath set you free From old oppression.

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth.

...because it is the very nature of Imperialism to turn humans into beasts.