Quotes About Oppression

To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil.

As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.

In a democracy, you have the right to say what you want, but don't forget about equality: are you putting someone else down by saying it?

People don't know that the very reason the police were made was to oversee slaves; they would be called overseers, and if a slave got out of line or tried to break away and escape, these were the people to hold them in and bring them back.

Sometimes people don't want to laugh because it's wrong to laugh at their own establishment.

Ildefonso Falcones

Ningún hombre debería verse obligado a comprar su libertad.

dejaba la educación de los niños obreros en manos de religiosos que les inculcaban aquellas ideas que debían llevarlos a la admisión de las clases sociales como designio divino, para que renunciaran a su libertad y se humillaran y sometieran pacíficamente a los privilegiados, todo bajo la promesa de un mundo mejor tras la muerte.

Debemos enseñar a los curas que amenazan y asustan a sus feligreses con el fuego eterno que en realidad no hay otro infierno que este, el que sufrimos nosotros, con la miseria, los salarios exiguos, humillantes, las condiciones de trabajo y las jornadas agotadoras, con la enfermedad de nuestros hijos y con la falta de comida y medicinas.

No hay libertad con hambre

Ellos mantendrían encendida la llama de la esperanza para un pueblo maltratado; un débil fuego, ciertamente, pero ¿no empezaban los grandes incendios por la más nimia de las chispas?

Los esclavos, más que nadie, conocemos el arte de la hipocresía.

los republicanos actuaron de forma represora para con los necesitados, que terminaron apostando por el anarcosindicalismo y la violencia en las calles.

But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.

The government men dragged Mom out of the house. They held her by the elbows and ankles and shoulders and thighs, their harsh, meaty hands digging into her softness. She flailed against their touch, but they overpowered her with ease, the way white men always know how to do.

I know without knowing: the man in that tree was a proud black man. Uppity, some might say. Out of his place, some might say. Too smart for his own good. I can hear the words, see those pink lips moving, spitting the words that promised his death. His back never bent underneath it, and they hated that most. I know plenty.

I'm not afraid...I'm awake to the way they think now...They have to have us in a box. They have to have us know they could shoot us. At any time.

There are no historic firsts, no grand gestures, no monuments or museums that undo generations of exclusions under law, policy, and practice, or that stop the expulsion. It makes me want to holler. Tell the truth. What is this symbolic republic?

And yes, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow is over, but the prisons, the persistence of poverty, are constant reminders of how the past made the present.

Those who lie outside citizenship and the gender binary had distinct rules applied to them, which were often mechanisms for violent domination.

People resist exploitation. They resist as actively as they can, as passively as they must.

Certain folks start playing Sindh Card despite having ravaged the life of the common Sindhi.

You just sit there and tolerate it, the same way everything in this country is tolerated. Every deception, every lie, every bullet in the brains. Just as you are already tolerating bullets in the brains that will be implemented only after the bullet is put in your brains.

Train movement through lockdown has been suspended only to further harass and oppress the poor population.