Quotes About Oppression

But what needs tell the story, told too oft,—every day told,—of heart-strings rent and broken,—the weak broken and torn for the profit and convenience of the strong! It needs not to be told;—every day is telling it,—telling it, too, in the ear of One who is not deaf, though he be long silent.

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

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

Finding your voice in an unequal power arrangement—especially when the more powerful person is shaming you—takes a great amount of courage.

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to… death or liberty."

We saw the lightning and that was the guns and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped.

everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

Liberation by destruction was on the way! We would free them even if we had to kill them all to do it!

It is a nasty world that only respects bullies.

In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of a pietà: a mother with her newly dead child on her lap.

It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an attempt - in my opinion an attempt doomed to failure - to find an alternative to a policy of racial integration which is fair to both white and black.

Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state.

Assassins murdered freedom merely by existing.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

Pauline Hopkins shared this very real fear that black people were threatened with annihilation. She adressed her plea to "all Negroes, whether Frenchmen, Spaniards, Americans or Africans to rediscover their history as one weapon in the struggle against opression".

If a woman was not free, it could be for two reasons. Her lack of freedom could be inflicted, in which case it constituted oppression. Or it could be chosen, in which case it represented a moral fault. In both cases, it was absolute evil.

Down with tyranny!' Bramble cried. 'Aristocracy! Autocracy! Monocracy! Other ocracy things! You are outnumbered, sir! Surrender !

Down with tyranny!" Bramble cried. "Aristocracy! Autocracy! Monocracy! Other ocracy things! You are outnumbered, sir! Surrender!" Sucking

The day they brought him forth to die they feared he might incite the crowd (the man was famous for his eloquence). And so his captors placed upon his face an iron mask in which he could not speak. That is how they burned him. That is how he died, without a word, in front of everyone.

Cultures that develop around the notion of an authoritarian Father God inevitably oppress those who do not fit the image of the all-powerful, adult, human male: children, women, homosexuals, and the nonhuman communities of animal, plant, and mineral life with which we live and share the planet.

You said you found Cathy by the Dumpster. This has significance because he thinks that women are trash.

When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.