Quotes About Oppression

Under Saddam's ruthless regime, where human rights barely nudged the moral barometer, animals didn't rate at all.

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

They were unmasked now, I saw them all for what they were, little sons and daughters of the eternal poor, the Lumpenproletariat, made only for slavery, for continued slavery. They wanted 'liberty' for everyone, in the abstract, but they couldn't give full liberty to anyone to act on his own!

El modelo que inspiraba esa idea se había olvidado hacía mucho tiempo: era el «tercer estado» de los franceses que se rebelaron en 1789 contra el primer y segundo estados de la nobleza y el clero.

Fear of black rebellion among planters was deep and long-standing. 7 It began in the first years that African slaves were brought ashore, but in 1739, an incident of unprecedented ferocity caught every slaveowner in its grip.

Englishmen do love to bury one thing so completely in another that the two can only be separated by force: peanuts in candy, indigo in glass, Africans in irons. Standing

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.

What a struggle! Think of all the big powerful forces lined up ready to crush anything wonderful and holy and free!

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

I don't care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.

The bad guys are whoever it is who think they are better than everybody else. This world needs to be turned upside down.

Economy-size coffins for the living dead. Tin cans for the sardines of humanity. There wasn't a more heinous pairing of words in the English language

Landlords are enemies of the workers," Hansu said.

PROVERBS 3:25–26 I pray that in righteousness my son shall be established. That he shall be far from oppression, for he shall not fear. And from terror, for it shall not come near him. ISAIAH 54:14

Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement of a people. Black people have never had the power to enforce racism, and so this is something that white America is going to have to work out themselves. If they decide they want to stop it, curtail it, or to do the right thing ... then it will be done, but not until then.

Sex and racism have always been tied together. Look at the thousands of black men who got lynched and castrated. The reason the Klan came into being was to protect white southern women.

Images of African Americans as bad mothers, ineffective mothers, and matriarchs...conceal and justify the difficult conditions in which they work and raise children. But oddly enough, these same women, who are said to run amok in their own communities, are thought to be entirely competent at parenting the children of the elite-as mammies during slavery, as domestic workers during segregation, or as child care workers today.

Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending.

Communist," he repeated. "You may have heard someone in a concentration admit to being a murderer and many agreed that they had been spies. A prisoner would sometimes even confess to having at one time - for a short while - been a Jew. But a communist, no. No one would ever let that word pass their lips.