Quotes About Oppression

Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be tackled.

This dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood.

If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.

Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.

There is no equality without coercion.

And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices.

Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.

The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over.

Everyone _shouldn't_ have a say in whose life is worth fighting for.

After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they looked up to, but somehow a space on the perch was a slap in the face, and treated as such.

The bed sheet brigade is bad enough, but the real threat to Americans and human rights today is the plain clothes Klux in the halls of government and certain black-robed Klux on court benches.

Dominating others is not equality.

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. People's attitudes would change. It would be a better place.

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.

I knew from experience of the past that this butchering of people was done for the express purpose of defeating the eight-hour movement.

Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people.

The fact that you are free is not your achievement, but rather a failure on our side.

What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists.

It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.