Quotes About Oppression

This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

Dictatorships by their nature are unrepresentative as they neglect the social needs of the people.

The Left is totalitarian in its nature

For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.

He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.

When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.

The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

People would rather be equal thank free.

When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

Where annual elections end, there slavery begins ... Humility, patience, and moderation, without which every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

It's pathetic how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great"-Hans Junior

If there is not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.