Quotes About Oppression

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.

It is a violation which has obsessed the tyrants of the twentieth century. They do not want simply to kill their opponents, but to liquidate them, to deny that they have ever existed.

I want to make it very clear, collaboration with the regime of Mr. Lukashenko at the moment means the support for violence and blatant violation of human rights.

Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

Democracy in Myanmar cannot be achieved with discrimination and gross violations of human rights.

Violence is the language of the unheard.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people.

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

I want to gesture toward a poetry of ourselves and others under the conditions of twenty-first-century absolutism, making us dimensional in a time when the human concrete is continually erased by state and religious violence and by disingenuous jargon serving state power.

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.

Answer violence with violence. If one of us falls today, five of them must fall tomorrow.

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

I don't understand why black people have been so quiescent, so passive over the hundreds of years of American history. Why hasn't there been more violence, more armed struggle? I know answers to some of that, but it seems to me it's an issue of faith, an abiding faith in some sort of great beyond, or great spirit, or even in the American dream.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.

You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates.

The apartheid system renounces no violence.