Quotes About Oppression

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Since when does a militarily occupied people have the responsibility for a peace movement?

We say no to the peace that keeps us on our knees, no to the peace that keeps us in chains, no to the false peace that denies the values and contributions of our peoples.

There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?

The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear

The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

We do not want the peace of slaves nor the peace of the grave.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

Peace without justice is tyranny

There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another.

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

If some peoples pretend that history or geography gives them the right to subjugate other races, nations, or peoples, there can be no peace.

Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God.

There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue.

If we had to kneel in order to live in peace, [ U.S. government] will have to kill us before.