Quotes About Oppression

She grows up feeling wrong, out of place, too dark, too tall, too unruly, too opinionated, too silent, too strange. She grows up with the awareness that she is merely tolerated, an irritant, useless, that she does not deserve love, that she will need to change herself substantially, crush herself down if she is to be married. She grows up, too, with the memory of what it meant to be properly loved, for what you are, not what you ought to be.

a large and ever-expanding range at the bullies' disposal.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

By the beginning of the twentieth century, it was a European habit to distinguish between civilized wars and colonial wars. The laws of war applied to wars among the civilized nation-states, but laws of nature were said to apply to colonial wars

There can be no reconciliation without a reorganization of power.

Mul?i dintre noi se las? încovoia?i sub ap?sarea ?tiin?ei ce au dobândit ?i abia se mai mi?c?, strivi?i ca animalele de corvoad? sub înc?rc?tura din spinare.

I nazisti odiavano gli ebrei più di quanto odiassero gli zingari. E però gli altri prigionieri disprezzavano gli zingari più degli ebrei. Il fatto era che nessuno, a parte le puttane e i ladri, sembrava disprezzare gli ebrei, mentre tutti si permettevano di disprezzare gli zingari.

Freedom had no place in the Soviet System. Freedom was another word for anarchy, and that wouldn't do at all.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Toute terre est Terre Sainte, là où un être est persécuté pour ses Idées.

The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself.

If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison.

We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock was landed on us.

Whether you're educated or illiterate, whether you live on the boulevard or in the alley, you're going to catch hell just like I am. We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man. He just happens to be a white man.

The Negro "revolution" is controlled by these foxy white liberals, by the government itself. But the Black revolution is controlled only by God.

Cruelty takes many forms, but all those forms depend on the human hability to dehumanize and de-individualize another person.

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression.

I see America through the eyes of a victim. I don't see any American dream. I see an American nightmare.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.