Quotes About Oppression

Whereupon Jim flopped into a chair and held forth at great length on the necessity of keeping wives in their places; to wit: speechless and expressionless in the presence of their lords and masters and cited several instances where men had met their downfall and utter ruin by ill advisedly permitting their wives to air their ignorance by talking. His audience, composed entirely of males, agreed with him. Wife-beaters are numberous in Poplar Street.

Oh, dey put me under arrest one day for vacancy in Bartow. When de judge found out Ah had a job of work. He took and searched me and when he found out Ah had a deck of cards on me, he charged me wid totin' concealed cards, and attempt to gamble, and gimme three months. Then dey made out another charge 'ginst me. 'Cused me of highway shufflin', and attempt to gamble. You know dese white folks sho hates tuh turn a n****r loose, if every dey git dey hands on 'im.

People abusing their power makes me see red.

The war against British rule must continue until freedom is achieved.

I have acted in 'Unfreedom' and I know that I will be there in 'Ayodhya.'

There's a lot of racism still alive and still active.

Slavery is something that affects all of us. It's all of our history.

Like I said, being an African-American man, you can tell there's two Americas we're living in. They don't want us to be equal.

I only aim at the powerful.

My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.

Alabama and other states had a terrible record in terms of depriving people of their right to vote, making it difficult for them to vote, discriminating against people.

My parents came from the south. So their ancestors were actually slaves in this country.

The world can make you very angry.

The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.

People think making jokes about something is just going to cause trouble. But actually, not making jokes about something is a type - and this sounds very pretentious - of apartheid.

Slavery is malignantly aristocratic.

People have to be armed to have power, you see.

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

The widow employed her woman's malice to devise a system of covert persecution.

From time to time a few of them, noticeable for the rosaries hanging from their necks (dangerous as it was to carry that sign of a religion which was suppressed, rather than abolished) shook their long hair and raised their heads defiantly.

Biurokratija, kaip ir kariuomen?, turi savo pasyv? paklusnum?; tai sistema, kuri užgniaužia s?mon?, žmog? paver?ia nieku ir gal? gale j?, tartum kok? sraigt? ar veržl?, prisuka prie valdžios mašinos.

Of all forms of tyranny, the most odious is that which constantly robs the soul of the merit of its thoughts and deeds. It has to abdicate without having reigned. The word we are readiest to speak, the feelings we most love to express, die when we are commanded to utter them.

Passive obedience is as well known in a Government department as in the army itself; and the administrative system silences consciences, annihilates the individual, and ends (give it time enough) by fashioning a man into a vise or a thumbscrew, and he becomes part of the machinery of Government