Quotes About Oppression

The adults as a rule came into the slave-sticks from treachery, and had never been slaves before. Very often the Arabs would promise a present of dried fish to villagers if they would act as guides to some distant point, and as soon as they were far enough away from their friends they were seized and pinned into the yoke from which there is no escape. These

This is a den of the worst kind of slave-traders; those whom I met in Urungu and Itawa were gentlemen slavers: the Ujiji slavers, like the Kilwa and Portuguese, are the vilest of the vile. It is not a trade, but a system of consecutive murders; they go to plunder and kidnap, and every trading trip is nothing but a foray. Moen

Men are worse than beasts of prey, if indeed it is lawful to call Zanzibar slaves men. It is monstrous injustice to compare free Africans living under their own chiefs and laws, and cultivating their own free lands, with what slaves afterwards become at Zanzibar and elsewhere.

The strangest disease I have seen in this country seems really to be broken-heartedness, and it attacks free men who have been captured and made slaves.

n medieval Europe, a new slave would place his head under his master's arm, and have a strap placed around his neck, in imitation of a sheep or cow, and in eighteenth-century Britain, goldsmiths advertised silver padlocks "For blacks or dogs.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

Anyone who makes the life of Jewish people difficult or grievous, as did the Pharaoh, as did Hitler, will be cursed by God.

It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.

As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

Paul was Nero's prisoner, but Nero was much more God's.

Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God.

The easiest way to establish a dictatorship is to claim you are God's representative on earth.

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.