Quotes About Oppression

Because Garden cannot survive one-nineteenth slave and eighteen-nineteenths free. A house divided against itself cannot stand!

She knew, as few others did, that the power to coerce depended entirely on the fear or weakness of other human beings. It was possible to use coercion, yes, but in the end you found yourself surrounded only by the weak and fearful, with all those of courage and strength arrayed against you. And many of your strong, brave enemies would match you in evil, too. The more you coerced others, the sooner you would bring yourself to the moment of your doom.

that's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.

In our wars with the west," said Lankowski, "we learned to bury everything that we did not want blown up. Individually-targeted bombs were first tested on Arabs, did you know that? The archives are full of pictures of exploding Arabs.

Je n'ai pas un amour particulier pour l' ouvrier idéalisé tel que se le représente l'esprit bourgeois du communiste, mais quand je vois un véritable ouvrier en chair et en os en conflit avec son ennemi naturel, l'agent de police, je n'ai pas besoin de me demander de quel coté je suis.

Tutti gli animali sono uguali, ma alcuni sono più uguali degli altri

In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create.

where he might variously be called a terrorist or a martyr or a murderer or a guerrilla or a freedom fighter

She wanted to tell him so much, on the tarmac, the day he left. The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies. If they ask you to stand still, you should dance. If they ask you to burn the flag, wave it. If they ask you to murder, re-create.

The world is run by brutal men and the surest proof is their armies.

We, the Palestinians, became the victims of the victims

Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy'?

Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.

Overseen all day by a goldtoothed pervert who carried a plaited rawhide quirt and harried them down the gutters on their knees gathering up the filth.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.

the major enemy of black survival in America has been and is neither oppression nor exploitation but rather the nihilistic threat—that is, loss of hope and absence of meaning. For as long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive. The self-fulfilling prophecy of the nihilistic threat is that without hope there can be no future, that without meaning there can be no struggle.

As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.

That which fundamentally motivates one still dictates the terms of what one thinks and does—[…] one's eyes should be on the prize, not on the perpetrator of one's oppression.

That was the use of knives for women: to cut food for the men who killed with their knives… who killed those women's husbands, their sons, and their daughters.