Quotes About Oppression

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.

I don't think people realise how the establishment became established. It simply stole the land and property off the poor, surrounded themselves with weak minded sycophants for protection, gave themselves titles and have been wielding power ever since.

Odette never forgot her father's words: Them whitefellas, they can never touch the stars, no matter how clever they think they are.

The station records revealed that in the decades following the town's foundation, the blacks had been kept on a tight rein. The log book for the police cells indicated that a week rarely passed without an inmate from the nearby mission being locked up, from a period of twelve hours to several weeks, and for matters including trespassing, drunkenness, absconding and co-habitation with those of a superior caste.

Henry was in tears. One of the older boys had painted his face black while others held him to the ground. 'You wanna hang round with the boongs,' one of them screamed, 'you're gonna have to be one.

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny democracy, not dictatorship the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

It's a depressingly masculine world we live in, Dolores.

One young woman was convinced it's part of the plan: by keeping everyone poor no one has time to organize to topple the system; they have to devote all their time and energy to the pursuit of the next meal.

Allra mest tyckte jag om att få var svinaktig med Hitler og Stalin.

It isn't a choice when you don't have the freedom to say no. A yes doesn't mean the same thing when it's the only answer you're allowed.

My father used to say that opression isn't a finite state. It's a weight that is carried until it becomes too heavy, and then it is thrown off. Not without struggle, not without pain, but he believed the weight would always, always be fought and overcome.

In Viridia, women were oppressed because men were afraid of them. Women had ruled this country. And history had denigrated them. Erased them. Nomi was certain this wasn't what Renzo had been taught. He would have told her. But the Superior knew. Whoever had given her this book knew. And now she did too.

oppression isn't a finite state. It's a weight that is carried until it becomes too heavy, and then it is thrown off.

No.» A Nomi si spezzò il cuore. «Non è una scelta se non si ha la libertà di dire no. Un sì non ha valore quando è l'unica risposta concessa!»

A yes doens't mean the same thing when it's the only answer you're allowed.

Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.

I nazisti non sono mai riusciti ad inculcarmi l'idea che essere ebreo è un peccato.

It was impossible to imagine the aloof, dignified, powerful High Lord living as, of all things, a slave .

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

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First I would have tied up all the dragonmancers and stuffed them in a cellar full of rotten potatoes.

My point is that I grew up in the most terrible place in Pyrrhia, but it made me strong. This dungeon is nothing in comparison. Here, we get to eat every day and your queen even lets us out to stretch our wings more frequently than I can believe.

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