Quotes About Oppression

I don't approve of women driving, mind you. And now they get to vote! He grumbled to himself. Remember that play we saw (The Minotaur)? All women are like that. Given a chance, they'd all fornicate with a bull.

Grizzled white men poured drinks and dispensed dubious wisdom. Young white women in tight clothes delivered the food and the smiles and said sorry all the time. Short brown men cooked it all and cleaned it all up, and still managed to rise above the racial oppression of the United states to make kissing sounds at us waitresses whenever we were in the kitchen.

Where they burn books, in the end they will also burn people. They're bloodthirsty and capable of anything. You'll see. With those torches they'll first set Germany ablaze, and then the rest of Europe.

A lot of the early jazz artists, of course, couldn't even walk through the front door of the hotels and clubs they were playing in and had to enter through back doors and kitchens, and I think Jean felt this was a metaphor for his place in the art world: he had entered through the back door. He broke into the white art world in a way that had never been done before by any black.

In the bad old days, men kept women from choosing to work. In the bad new days, women keep women from choosing to stay home.

Imagine every day you go to a school where the building's run-down and the textbooks are outdated and there's forty kids in every class, and you put your hand over your heart for the pledge—one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all—but you know it's a lie, and there's no liberty for you, no justice for you.

If she gave yo now, without confronting Hal, it would all have been for nothing. He would continue to live in a world without consequences, a world where men like him hurt girls like her, then shook them off like they were dust underneath their shoes.....

in a world where being born female meant spending years of your life at risk, and the rest of it invisible, existing as prey or barely existing at all.

being born female meant spending years of you life at risk, and the rest of it invisible, existing as prey or barely existing at all.

If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.

in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the effect of its being made an instrument of intimidation, corruption, and delusion, for the support of depredation and oppression in the hands of governments.

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

I find the post-industrial environment of central Manchester oppressive and perturbing. The treeless labyrinths of monumental brick edifices that line streets both narrow and wide cannot help but make one feel hemmed in.

But to most of the English, their history is just that, history. The contrast is with Scotland or Ireland, where every self-respecting adult considers themselves to belong to an unbroken tradition stretching back to the wearing of woad: oppressed peoples remember their history.

The first time any man's freedom is trodden. With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied – chains us all, irrevocably.

this story offers far more than a simple moral of how the meek can trump the mighty.

Perhaps the world would soon become one vast incinerator for burning people.

Never before had I seen such a striking uniform. At the proud peak of the cap glittered a death's-head and crossbones, while lightninglike signs embellished the collar. A red badge bearing the bold sign of the swastika cut across his sleeve.

With all due respect, sir," she said, "I do not believe justice will ever be truly possible, economic or otherwise, for any human being, until we have once and for all emancipated the vagina.

People are starving, and this is their solution, he eventually said. They turn victims into criminals. They aim guns at people who can't shoot back.

tour guide tells them that after the Taj was completed, each of the builders, twenty-two thousand men, had his thumbs cut off so that the structure could never be built again.

Women were relegated to an inferior caste ... most dramatically with the coming of industrialization. 'Women's work' was segregated from significant human activity.

You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.

The Government justifies keeping everyone else in poverty because people seem to work the hardest when they're right on the edge of survival.