Quotes About Oppression

I said to myself, Malala, you must be brave. You must not be afraid of anyone. You are only trying to get an education. You are not committing a crime.

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of the students.

The most dangerous evils of society are the ones we don't speak of.

Slavery didn't end in 1865; it just evolved.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

Being a black person in America is exhausting.

Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.

I've been harassed by police my whole life and seen people who looked like me treated like animals at the hands of law enforcement.

When people of color and their allies say today that Black Lives Matter, the nation must hear and see it through the lens of all that has come before and understand that they speak truth.

I think the greatest lesson that power has to teach us is, once you've had it, once you are a part of it, you're never free.

But on the other hand government takes away a certain amount of liberty and in some countries it takes away all of liberty. And it will, everywhere, if people who fight government do not fight government any longer.

All literature is political.

I can be jailed again at any time, it is very easy. They can say I am a criminal and just lock me up.

You can't, in the 21st century, continue to live in a system where people live under martial law for 30 years.

Me encuentro mal, como si tuviera un gran peso en el pecho. - Un corazón es una pesada carga.

One of Frank's key tasks was to kill all people of influence, such as teachers, priests, landowners, politicians, lawyers, and artists. Then he began rearranging huge masses of the population: over a span of five years, 860,000 Poles would be uprooted and resettled; 75,000 Germans would take over their lands; 1,300,000 Poles would be shipped to Germany as slave labor; and 330,000 would simply be shot. With

When governments murder those who speak the truth, it is time to get new governments.

As we drove into Harrow-gate, the atmosphere in the car was heavy with Miss Winter's oppressive silence.

Tyrants come and go, tyranny is constant.

A bully to the weak but a bootlicker to the strong.

I did not do anything. They had a go at me for being who I am That doesn't make sense Conrad said, People don't get attacked just for being who they are Tell that to the Jews Dart said

Can you imagine what this old Negro had to go through? Can you imagine the day a Negro woman went to a black man and said: "Honey, I'm pregnant," and both of them fell on their knees and prayed that their baby would be born deformed? Can you imagine what this Negro went through, hoping his baby is born crippled? Because if he was born crippled, he would have less chance of being a slave and more chance of having freedom.

Even though he understood the depths of racism and black oppression, Ali lived his life as a free man—a free loving and lovable man.

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