Quotes About Oppression

All of North Korea is a jail.

China is a heaven compared to North Korea.

When you're just a breath away from North Korea, it boggles your mind that that exists, or that something like the Khmer Rouge ever existed. You wonder how we allow that to happen as human beings; how we allow the human condition to get so depraved and desperate.

In North Korea, we learnt all Americans are the enemy; they are not human.

If you think about it, the people of Cuba and North Korea will never meet because, well, they have restricted freedom of movement.

If I could've had the things that Americans throw away, I never would've escaped North Korea. That's how much we were desperate.

Why would North Korea people care if they have nukes or not? All they want is food. They want freedom.

There's nothing I did wrong. I was just born in North Korea, and that was my crime.

There is a holocaust going on in my country, the world needs to acknowledge that and do something to help the people of North Korea.

My life is not only mine. I am telling the story of all North Korean people; it is my responsibility to tell it.

Living in China, I found out that the bright new world was not for me, not for defectors. My life in North Korea had been OK; suddenly, in China, I had to feed myself and earn money. Worst of all, North Korean defectors are hunted by the government.

I do think sometimes, I wonder is it true that every life is equal in this world? Do we care about North Korean lives?

The North Korean government are out to get me.

Most North Korean people have never seen a map of the world. They don't even know that the Internet exists. They don't even have electricity.

Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.

From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.

Things are not going to change until Indian women, and their parents, stop being afraid of what society will say. This is the single biggest obstacle. The fear of what people will say and how this will shame their parents means that women are paralysed.

A lot of people of color and the Black Lives Matter movement will talk about what's really happening, but it seems like you can't get the black president to say something that's obvious about what's happening to black people in this country.

The stuff that the cops do and the stuff that happens, what bothers us, the black community, is it's so blatant... It's so out in the open that if you can't see it, then you are part of the problem because it is very obvious.

We will not stop resisting the occupation until liberation or martyrdom.

I tell you, say the rich, the poor are naught but dirty wind welling in air-shafts over the cinders and droppings of the past, their voices thick with grease and ordure, sewer-greed to corrode the ear with the horrors of the past and the voids of new stupidity. One could drown waiting for the poor to make one fine distinction. Yes, destroy us say the rich and you lose the roots of God.

We are grown stiff with the ramrod of convention down our backs. ???? ?????, ????? ??????????? ???????? ???????? ???????????, ????? ???????????. (O. Henry, The Green Door)

The gray ghost that sometimes peeps through the rings of smoke is that of slain old King Convention. Freedom is the tyrant that holds them in slavery.

better to be stoned in the plaza than to turn the mill that squeezes out the juice of life, that turns eternity into empty hours, minutes into prisons, and time into copper coins and abstract shit