Quotes About Oppression

It is better to live with one free man and to be without fear and free, than to be a slave with many.

Women stay in abusive and loveless marriages and relationships because they fear being judged and labeled by society.

Im so sick of being treated like this...

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

When the people are threatened with tyranny, they must choose either chains or guns.

I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit.

no one asks poor people if they want war.

Not to own the means of production can lead to premature death, but not to own the means of representation is also a kind of death.

You tried to play the game, okay? But they run the game. You don't run anything. That means you can't change anything. Not from the inside. When you got nothing, you got to change things from the outside.

I was no more than the garment worker who made sure the stitching was correct in an outfit designed, produced, and consumed by the wealthy white people of the world. They owned the means of production, and therefore the means of representation, and the best that we could ever hope for was to get a word in edgewise before our anonymous deaths.

The spectacle of the constabulary in the terminal with automatic weapons slung on their shoulders also made me homesick, confirming I was again in a country with its malnourished neck under a dictator's loafer.

I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit. Gentlemen,

the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit.

Why do those who call for independence and freedom take away the independence and freedom of others?

We're all the same to them, Phuong understood with a mix of anger and shame—small, charming, and forgettable. She

We had not chosen to be debased by the French, to be divided by them into an unholy trinity of north, center, and south, to be turned over to the great powers of capitalism and communism for a further bisection, then given roles as the clashing armies of a Cold War chess match played in air-conditioned rooms by white men wearing suits and lies. No,

She was a poor person, I was her poor child, and no one asks poor people if they want war.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace,

As the Congressman rose, I calmed the tremor in my gut. I was in close quarters with some representative specimens of the most dangerous creature in the history of the world, the white man in a suit.

This sight scandalized our French overlords, who saw this childhood nudity as evidence of our barbarism, which then justified their raping, pillaging, and looting, all sanctioned in the holy name of getting our children to wear some clothes so they would not be so tempting to decent Christians whose spirit and flesh were both in question.

You tried to play their game, okay? But they run the game. You don't run anything. That means you can't change anything. Not from the inside. When you got nothing, you got to change things from the outside.

Colonies were a pearl choker adorning the alabaster-white neck of the colonizer

We threatened the sanctity and symmetry of a white and black America whose yin and yang racial politics left no room for any other color, particularly that of pathetic little yellow-skinned people pickpocketing the American purse.

In their working outfits as busboys, waiters, gardeners, filed hands, fishermen, manual laborers, custodians, or simply the un- and underemployed, these shabby examples of the lumpen blended into the background wherever they happened to be, always seen as a mass, never noticed as individuals.