Quotes About Oppression

In the colonial context the settler only ends his work of breaking in the native when the latter admits loudly and intelligibly the supremacy of the white man's values.

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer.

The rise of National Socialism is the protest of a people against a State that denies the right to work.

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

The game is rigged to work for those who already have money and power.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

The majority of the roles I've played are women who have been either impoverished or subjugated in some way. So while I've been fortunate enough to have success because these roles exist, they are stereotypical roles.

I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.

There's an anecdote that's really been sticking with me: To be a Black man in America, you are born into the horror genre. You are not safe. Period. Full stop.

Well sometimes, culture can stifle talent, so you have to be careful.

Blacks in America want to forget about slavery - the stigma, the shame. If you can't be who you are, who can you be? How can you know what to do? We have our history. We have our book, and that is the blues.

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.

From the first slave ship arriving in harbor, America stole and judged blacks. Black life that didn't fit into white logic was commercially exploited or lynched.

Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.

In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having the fruits of their little communal gardens stolen by the guards, after they had done all the work; but at the last camp everything was stolen.

Because many people deny the Palestinian struggle. They deny them everything. They deny them humanity, they deny them the right to be on the land they were born in. They deny them the right to return to the homes that were stolen from them, to build Israel.

The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

The slavery at Bufford's was too fresh in my recollection to let me care to bind myself again. From the time that I took my nose off that lithographic stone, I have had no master, and never shall have any.

Women are allowed to exist in this very narrow lane, but as soon as you step out of that lane, people want to stone you.