Quotes About Oppression

Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.

What does censorship reveal? It reveals fear.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and poverty.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.

The violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

The powerful have no monopoly on greed, hatred, fear, or ignorance.

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

Behind every bad law, a deep fear.

Those who would rule with an iron fist always fear the free expression of opinions by those they would suppress.

Fear is a psychic tyrant that has no intention of letting its slave go free. It will say whatever it needs to say to confuse your thinking... It will always seek to preserve itself.

If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

Joking about death-or anything else that oppresses us-makes it less frightening.