Quotes About Oppression

Helping others I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.

Casi todos los días recuerdo la reflexión de Saadi que que no existe una tiranía tan sin sentido como la de los subordinados.

Dicho del Profeta Opresión Cuando existe la opresión, incluso el pájaro muere en su nido

Detto del Profeta Oppressione Quando c'è l'oppressione, anche l'uccello muore nel suo nido.

Lo que es conocido como tiranía por el hombre superior puede parecer justicia para el hombre ordinario.

Was it that bureaucracy, taken to extremes, became oppression? Or that oppression needed the fiction of legality, a craving for the respectability that it could never have?

A woman, though she is a queen, is meant by God to be instructed by her husband." It is the bishop of Orange who says this, and she smiles and imagines cleaving him with a sword, right through his skull to his breastbone

The zoos are full and the prisons overflowing. My, my. How the world so dearly loves a cage." She

Mortality rates among the crews of vessels employed in the African slave trade were comparable to those of the slaves themselves. It was not unusual for 40 percent of the crew to perish during a single voyage, most from tropical diseases against which they had no resistance. About half the sailors pressed into the Royal Navy died at sea.

Slavery is a sin when whites were put to the yoke, but not the African. All men are created equal, unless we decide you are not a man.

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.

The whites came to this land for a fresh start and to escape the tyranny of their masters, just as the freemen had fled theirs. But the ideals they held up for themselves, they denied others.

A plantation was a plantation; one might think one's misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universality.

La dictature c'est "Ferme ta gueule !", la démocratie c'est "Cause toujours !

Societies that treat women badly are dangerous societies. The empowerment of women is not only morally right it is also practical in the positive impact it has on so many social ills.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

Be careful of raising me too high, brother. I have no special strength, unless it is in choosing good men to follow me. The great lie of cities is that we are all too weak to stand against those who oppress us. All I have done is see through that lie. I always fight, Kachiun. Kings and shahs depend on people remaining sheep, too afraid to rise up. All I ever did was realize I can be a wolf to them.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws. EDMUND BURKE

This is a hard land and the people are used to death. If I am to rule them, they must know that to face me is to be destroyed. They must be afraid, Chakahai. It is the only way.

They have kept us apart for a thousand generations, Kachiun. They have ridden us until we were nothing more than savage dogs. That is the past. I have brought us together and they will be trembling. I'll give them cause.

The great lie of cities is that we are all too weak to stand against those who oppress us. Al I have done is see through that lie. I always fight, Kachiun. Kings and shahs depend on people remaining sheep, too afraid to rise up. All I ever did was realize I can be a wolf to them.

James Connolly, 1916: 'The worker is the slave of capitalist society: the female worker is the slave of that slave.

It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books.