Quotes About Oppression

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

The morning sun shines over the prison wall, And drives away the shadows and miasma of hopelessness. A life-giving breeze blows across the earth. A hundred imprisoned faces smile once more.

These crimes were all motivated by economic jealousy. Either the Negroes in the area were more prosperous than the Whites, or the black workers would not let themselves be exploited thoroughly. In all cases, the principal culprits were never troubled, for the simple reason that they were always incited, encouraged, spurred on, then protected, by the politicians, financiers, and authorities, and above all, by the reactionary press.

Among the collection of crimes of American "civilization," lynching has a special place of honor.

Imagine a furious horde….This horde is transported with the wild delight of a crime to be committed without risk. They are armed with sticks, torches, revolvers, ropes, knives, scissors, vitriol, daggers; in a word, with all that can be used to wound or kill. Imagine in this, a flotsam of black flesh pushed about, beaten, trampled underfoot, torn, slashed, insulted, tossed hither and thither, bloodstained, dead. The horde are the lynchers. The human rag is the Black, the victim.

Heaven does not tell stories of oppressed peoples.

The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.

The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little; and this drip continued, falling obstinately, falling without pause on the souls of the children.

But I will never believe That I belong to the side with the guillotine. (You should eat the rich Even if that includes me.)

To bring about the rule of righteousness in the land so that the strong shall not harm the weak.

The Prophet said that the highest form of struggle (jih?d) is to speak the truth in the face of a tyrant.

Impure people oppress, and the pure-hearted not only forgive their oppressors, but elevate them in status and character.

The Israeli concept that security is its exclusive right somehow generates the U.S.-enforced notion that the Palestinians are obligated to deliver security to the Israelis while Israel delivers death and destruction with impunity to the Palestinians.

It is amazing how much the Palestinians can tolerate economic deprivation. It is the imprisonment that hurts... this is not a security siege, it's a punitive siege.

I was being thrown to the wolves. Even though I did something great, nobody wanted to be a part of it. I was so isolated. I couldn't share it. For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.

There wasn't much white people would allow us to do in those days. You could be a schoolteacher or an athlete to get away from the manual labor and servant-type jobs, but there wasn't much else they were going to allow you [to] do.

It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.

The road to totalitarian domination leads through many intermediate stages for which we can find numerous analogies and precedents.

The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easer to act than to think.

Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

At finding ourselves, and without having committed any crime, thus introduced into one of the legal fortresses of a country celebrated throughout the world for the freedom, equality, and magnanimity of its laws, I could not help reflecting on the strange ideas of right and justice that seemed to have usurped a place in public opinion, since the mere accident of birth, and what persons were the lease capable of changing or modifying was made a reason for punishing and imprisoning them.