Quotes About Oppression

What did your last slave die of?

Camus (Albert) 'The welfare and safety of the people is always the alibi of the tyrant.

The worst tyrannies were the ones where a government required its own logic on every embedded node.

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

But wars—or the threat of war—at least put an end to American chattel slavery, Nazism, Fascism, Japanese militarism, and Soviet Communism. It is hard to think of any democracy—Afghan, American, Athenian, contemporary German, Iraqi, Italian, Japanese, ancient Theban—that was not an outcome of armed struggle and war.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.

Why don't they let us explain who we are?' Derin protested 'It's not fair judging us like that without giving us a chance to speak' Marna laughed mirthlessly. 'Do you think that would help?' she responded. 'The face of fear has neither eyes nor ears. It is blind and deaf to all but its own terrors.

Within two years of Lenin's edict more than thirty bishops and 1,200 priests had been killed and thousands more jailed.

But darling Sasha, why resort to terrorism, murder? How awful.' He replied, 'What can one do, Mother, when there are no other means available?

We Russians are slaves because we are unable to free ourselves and become citizens rather than subjects.' Alexander Herzen, (1812–1870)

Overnight the Revolution had brought political freedoms never before known in Russia – and hardly ever since. People could say, write and read what they wanted, something they could not do a year later – nor their great-grandchildren a hundred years later.

In the conflicts between capital and labour, the army has often intervened against labour - never against capital. In court the defense of the poor is nothing short of impossible, because of the cost of any judicial action; in effect, a worker can neither bring a case nor defend one. The overwhelming majority of crimes are directly caused by poverty and come into the category of attacks on property. The overwhelming majority of prison inmates are from the poor.

The so-called dictatorship of the proletariat is really the dictatorship over the proletariat by the party and even by individual persons.

Méfie-toi, Artémitch, du confort bureaucratique, C'est de la vase; on s'y noie.

Carelessness on the part of revolutionaries has always been the best aid the police have.

The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

We are in the midst of a violent backlash againist feminism that uses images of female beauty as political weapons against women's advancement.

The best way to stop girls achieving anything is to force them to achieve everything.

My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.

Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.

Happy birthday to evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. He gathered family and friends together and celebrated by executing a few close friends.