Quotes About Oppression

Um, we don't hit women in America." He scowled, and spit out an apple seed. "No. Americans just persecute smaller countries that believe different from them.

No. Americans just persecute smaller countries that believe different from them.

The laws are like spiders' webs: just as spiders' webs catch the weaker creatures but let the stronger ones through, so the humble and poor are restricted by the laws, but the rich and powerful are not bound by them (Valerius Maximus Memorable Deeds and Sayings 7.2 ext. 14).

One thought alone preoccupies the submerged mind of Empire: how not to end, how not to die, how to prolong its era. By day it pursues its enemies. It is cunning and ruthless, it sends its bloodhounds everywhere. By night it feeds on images of disaster: the sack of cities, the rape of populations, pyramids of bones, acres of desolation.

Bread and water will not break me, and if you choose to isolate me, I shall have only but more time to plot against my oppressors.

But in their initial jubilation they struggled to withstand a new reality in which they stood unshackled but remained unfree.

Those who stalked us as their prey paid little heed to the hour; the sun rose above gangs of kidnappers who grabbed free men and women off the street in broad daylight and sold them elsewhere to be consumed, digested, and excreted from the bowels of the republic.

A corporate state run by dictators who call themselves servants of the people they enslave.

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

I have come to the conclusion that imperialism and exploitation are forms of cannibalism and, in fact, are precisely those forms of cannibalism which are most diabolical or evil.

Be suspicious of history that is written by the conquerors.

We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with Soul Force. We will not hate you, but we cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws. But we will soon wear you down with our capacity to suffer. And in winning our freedom we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win yours in the process. Martin

White Fang knew the law well: to oppress the weak and obey the strong.

The Blue Church's stranglehold on truth and reality is breaking, and new ideas are emerging. But when they do, the Blue Church rallies to squash them using their trusted techniques of shame, ridicule, and exile.

The subject matter may have been biased but the administration assumed we were decent human beings and before classes started all we needed to learn was where the library was. Today, the administrations start with a different assumption, one that believes humanity is dark, one that sees hate and oppression everywhere, one that sees boys as rapists, and victims...victims are everywhere.

Feminism will have you believe women are oppressed and maligned, tortured by male power, and forced into submission to the patriarchy.

HOW THE BIBLE WAS USED TO OPPRESS WOMEN

We could live, but they won't let us."]

United States—and unfairly, I feel—the greatest purveyor of violence on earth.

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone, are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen long ago! from We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

I am born as the South explodes, too many people too many years enslaved, then emancipated but not free, the people who look like me keep fighting and marching and getting killed so that today— February 12, 1963 and every day from this moment on, brown children like me can grow up free. Can grow up learning and voting and walking and riding wherever we want. I am born in Ohio but the stories of South Carolina already run like rivers through my veins.

And freedom? Oh, freedom. Well that's just some people talking. Your prison is walking through this world all alone.

First they brought us here. Then we worked for free. Then it was 1863, and we were supposed to be free but we weren't. And that's why people are so mad.