Quotes About Oppression

I simply await the day that they drag me to some air-conditioned dungeon and leave me there beneath the fluorescent lights and soundproofed ceiling to pay the price for scorning all that they hold dear within their little latex hearts.

Then, too, if I were a Negro, I would not be pressured by my mother to find a good job, for no good jobs would be available. My mother herself, a worn old Negress, would be too broken by years of underpaid labor as a domestic to go out bowling at night. She and I could live most pleasantly in some moldy shack in the slums in a state of ambitionless peace, realizing contentedly that we were unwanted, that striving was meaningless.

We insult her everyday on TV And wonder why she has no guts or confidence When she's young we kill her will to be free While telling her not to be so smart we put her down for being so dumb

We make her paint her face and dance If she won't be a slave, we say that she don't love us If she's real, we say she's trying to be a man While putting her down we pretend that she is above us

They keep you doped with religion, and sex, and T.V. And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see

Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.

The nest of college-birds are three, / Law, Physic and Divinity; / And while these three remain combined, / They keep the world oppressed and blind / . . . Now is the time to be set free, / From priests' and Doctors' slavery.

I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.

They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool.

We have to face up to systemic racism. We see it in jobs, we see it in education, we see it in housing. But let's be really clear; it's a big part of what we're facing in the criminal justice system.

The purpose of education is to free the student from the tyranny of the present.

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

It is imperative for US to parent our children and educate them outside of the school systems, as our education system was not designed to lift US out of oppression.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

When there are two PhD's in a developing country one is Head of State and the other is in exile.

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.