Quotes About Oppression

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city.

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.

The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?

Just be glad you don't live in one of those little countries where at this very moment, music is severely restricted, or as it is in Iran, totally illegal.

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.

We spent time on Burma and the need for the military regime there to understand that they shouldn't fear the voices of people. And yet they do.

Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.