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Quotes About Oppression

Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.
~ Nelson Mandela
I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
~ Sitting Bull
I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
~ Walid Jumblatt
Welcome to Israel, where chanting "Death to Arabs" is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.
~ Remi Kanazi
Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
As long as there are rich people who have poor people they can send to fight their wars.. We will never have peace
~ Chris Crass
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
~ Sitting Bull
Where they make a desert they call it peace.
~ Tacitus
I am a man of peace God knows how I love peace but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace.
~ Louis Kossuth
Racism is a stubborn whitehead on the face of society.
~ Stefan Emunds
If you kill, kidnap & rape your opponents claiming that you're fighting the terrorist that is not exist!Soon it'll be existing as you're sowing it!Miserable Egypt!
~ Dr. Muhammad Abdul Mohsin
It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things.
~ James A. Baldwin
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
~ Elie Wiesel
Philosophy is, in the last instance, class struggle in the field of theory.
~ Louis Althusser
Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.
~ Slavoj Zizek
Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.
~ Emma Goldman
Conquered people tend to be witty.
~ Saul Bellow
Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us.
~ George Carlin
A baby is born like a bird ready to soar from the mother's lap. The nets of societal rules and regulations puts him in a cage from which he can never escape to create his own new world.
~ Debasish Mridha
We often fear to say what is true. Our tongues are tied by the beliefs of the society.
~ Debasish Mridha
In a world full of slavery, is it any wonder then that we cannot understand what it is to be free.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
We are still living in the deep darkness of conformity.
~ Debasish Mridha M.D.