Quotes About Oppression

The laws of man are made only to be broken, because they are stupid and unjust.

A curse could also be likened to a long, evil arm stretched out from the past. It rests upon you with a dark, oppressive force that inhibits the full expression of your personality. You never feel completely free to be yourself. You sense that you have potential within you that is never fully developed. You always expect more of yourself than you are able to achieve.

Let them run ahead. Then I'll have good reason for shooting them down. Sharpeville? Attempting to escape. Attempting to escape from the prison of their lives. That's the most dangerous crime. It brings about revolution. So, off we go, lads!

is the same voices that, in the slave ship, smile at their brothers, "Boy, is just the whip

If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality

One of the most blasphemous consequences of injustice, especially racist injustice, is that it can make a child of God doubt that he or she is a child of God.

It is small comfort to a mouse, if an elephant is standing on its tail, to say 'I am impartial.' In this instance, you are really supporting the elephant in its cruelty.

If you are neutral in a situation of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

The white person entered the voting booth burdened by the load of guilt for having enjoyed the fruits of oppression and injustice. He emerged as somebody new. He too cried out, "The burden has been lifted from my shoulders, I am free, transfigured, made into a new person." He walked tall, with head held high and shoulders set square and straight. White people found that freedom

Your husband should tan ye, woman," said an austere voice from the blackness under a tree. "St. Paul says 'Let a woman be silent, and—' " "You can mind your own bloody business," I snarled, sweat dripping behind my ears, "and so can St. Paul.

Åžimdiye kadar 18.yüzy?l leydilerinin bay?lmas?n?n korselerinin s?k? olduÄŸundan dolay? düÅŸündüÄŸümü fark ettim ama ÅŸimdi nedenini daha iyi görüyordum,bay?lma sebepleri 18.yüzy?l erkeklerinin ahmakl???ndan kaynaklan?yordu.

But there—poor men mun bleed for the rich man's gold, and always will, eh?

Echada en el suelo, con los paneles tallados del techo parpadeando tenuemente sobre mí, me encontré pensando que, hasta entonces, siempre había creído que la tendencia a desmayarse de las mujeres del siglo XVIII se debía a los corsés apretados. Pero no, se debía a la estupidez de los hombres de aquel siglo.

We do not believe in authoritarian rule.

If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery.

In one way, I fear all Damascus is a dungeon. Or do you have to live here to appreciate that?

My father was the first black Secret Service agent. He wanted to get into the FBI but J. Edgar Hoover, who was the head of the FBI, was a racist and he said we don't want any black people.

Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.

I know what it means to be a slave, both physically and emotionally.

I don't think people have to be personally racist to enable a racist system.

The enemy is the system. And the system is made up of people, and we have a choice in that.

Men feel they have a sense of power and entitlement over women.