Quotes About Oppression

National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry cause the government don't give a f-k about protecting me.

For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.

If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.

All lived lives of dignity and repression.

Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.

It would be extremely naive to expect the dominant classes to develop a type of education that would enable subordinate classes to perceive social injustices critically.

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.

Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be able to vie with our oppressors, go where we may . . .

A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.