Quotes About Oppression

There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog.

Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.

Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!

...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy.

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor.

In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.

Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.

Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.

My dad was a tyrant. He used to physically beat the crap out of us.

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."

Woe and death to all who resist my will!

When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand.

One must never compromise with tyrants. One can only strike at kings through the head. Nothing can be expected from European kings except by force of arms. I vote for the death of the tyrant.

I feel eternal pain for those who were killed by Hitler, but I feel no less pain for those killed on Stalin's orders. I suffer for everyone who was tortured, shot, or starved to death.

Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death, and get it over with.

If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.

The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.

I have had to pay a price for leaving Islam and for speaking out. I have to pay for round-the-clock security because of the death threats against me.

Plenty poisoned minds of the people are ours. Slaves, from mental death.