Quotes About Oppression

The worst prisons were not constructed of warped steel and stone. They were carved out of expectations and lies, judgment and corruption.

Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves.

The difference between a free human and a human is not the word "free" it's the word "human", because humanity can never be caged with the chains of slavery.

Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They're bedfellows."-General John JamesCommandant, USMCDecember 11th, 2032

To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.

Only in Russia poetry is respected - it gets people killed.

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

Women who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices.

Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.

Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Politics and church are the same. They keep the people in ignorance.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.

The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.

Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.