Quotes About Oppression

Mengistu is a barbaric and cruel creature who becomes happy with the death of human beings.

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.

People say all lives matter. And that's true, but it's just black people that are getting shot in the back running or choked to death for having cigarettes or playing their music too loud.

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: "We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken."

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

One of the Baathists once told me, "If you're not careful, I'll have you put away," and those words meant death.

Death to the pigs is my basic statement.

She knew all she needed to know about the history of the human race: the ruthless and the defenseless. She didn't need the dates and the names. The ruthless and the defenseless, there's the whole fucking deal.

that the Jews were victims before they were conquerors and that they are conquerors only because they are victims.

Ideological tyranny. It's the disease of the century. The ideology institutionalizes the pathology.

They lived harmoniously with Arabs for a thousand years. But the white Israelis have taught them that, too—how to hate the Arabs and how to hate themselves. The white Israelis have turned them into their thugs.

an aging man imprisoned on Goli Otok as an enemy of the regime

The apostle Paul had much to say about the immorality of individual church members, but little to say about the immorality of pagan Rome. He did not rail against the abuses in Rome—slavery, idolatry, gladiator games, political oppression, greed—even though such abuses surely offended Christians of that day every bit as much as our deteriorating society offends Christians today.

25He jammed[27] the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, "Let's get away from the Israelites! The LORD is fighting for them against Egypt.

the descendants of today's raped and mutilated victims will arise to seek vengeance on the avengers.

Allen Yuan had served a term of twenty-two years at hard labor for holding unauthorized church meetings in China.

King clung to nonviolence because he profoundly believed that only a movement based on love could keep the oppressed from becoming a mirror image of their oppressors. He wanted to change the hearts of the white people, yes, but in a way that did not in the process harden the hearts of the blacks he was leading toward freedom. Nonviolence, he believed, 'will save the Negro from seeking to substitute one tyranny for another.

the early discrimination laws against the Jews—the "Jews Only" shops, park benches, rest rooms, and drinking fountains—were explicitly modeled on segregation laws in the United States.

To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads.

She looked at me as if for a moment she would seek someone who would understand the dreadful predicament of a woman, in this world ruled by men.

We stand hand-clasped, our faces quite blank, as if this were not a nightmare that tells me, as clearly as if it were written in letters of fire, what ending a girl may expect if she defies the rules of men and thinks she can make her own destiny. I am here not only to witness what happens to a heretic. I am here to witness what happens to a woman who thinks she knows more than men.

Poor little girl. Poor little girl, Nan says, and at first I think she is speaking of the baby, perhaps it is a girl after all. But then I realize she is speaking of me, a girl of thirteen years, whose own mother has said that they can let her die as long as a son and heir is born.