Quotes About Oppression

Como si no bastara con los comunistas, ahora son los homosexuales exhibiéndose en el campo, haciendo todas sus cochinadas al aire libre. Es el colmo.

y en la risotada de un país gozoso con el chiste fácil que humilla a los débiles.

It just broke her heart to hear the sobs of those women who dug around in the rubble, dripping wet from the police water cannons, asking for news of their loved ones everywhere, knocking again and again on metal doors that never opened, trampled by blasts of water in front of the Ministry of Justice, chaining themselves to lampposts with torn stockings, disheveled, clutching their chests so the filthy water wouldn't tear away the photograph they wore over their hearts.

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.

If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

It is the greatest of crimes to depress true art and science.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.

Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.

Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art.

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey; They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.

Art was the first casualty of the Socialist and Communist revolutions of the 20th Century. Socialists killed the independent thinkers first.

We call such institutions, which have opposite properties to those we call inclusive, extractive economic institutions—extractive because such institutions are designed to extract incomes and wealth from one subset of society to benefit a different subset. E

It is impossible to understand many of the poorest regions of the world at the end of the twentieth century without understanding the new absolutism of the twentieth century: communism.

In all cases communism brought vicious dictatorships and widespread human rights abuses.

poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty.