Quotes About Oppression

tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion…that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them.

tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion…that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them. It is these voices—these choirs of empathy, tolerance, and compassion—that I pray one day will sing from this mountaintop.

that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion…that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them. It is these voices—these choirs of empathy, tolerance, and compassion

history has taught us—that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion…that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them.

This complex should be a living museum. It should be a vibrant symbol of tolerance, where schoolchildren can gather inside a mountain to learn about the horrors of tyranny and the cruelties of oppression, such that they will never be complacent.

The people who control this country are the real gangsters. You know that, right? And if you play by their rules, you're nothing but their slave.

IF OUR SOCIETY ever opted for Orwell's Big Brother approach, the instrument of choice for oppression would have to be the credit wake. In a totally noncash economy with only a vestigial barter black market, a person's activities could be tracked in real time by monitoring the credit wake of his or her universal card. There were strict laws protecting card privacy but laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.

Ogni forma di violenza è potere, signor Luczak.

And those who were against the regime felt that music was like a kind of oxygen, because this was the one place where they could really be free. And those musicians who were in favor of the regime were only too proud that such a wonderful institution existed under such a regime.

And of all the plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

she thought herself very ill used, yet she had no power to resent it

What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

Karl Marx recognized that workers without a choice are workers in chains. But his idea of breaking chains was for us to depose the pharaohs and then build the pyramids for ourselves, as if building pyramids is something we just can't stop doing, we love it so much.

Only slaves love being powerful. HANS ERICH NOSSACK

"They drive away the orphan's donkey and take the widow's ox in pledge."

"The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender."

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.

In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies of liberty.

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.

blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.

I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.