Quotes About Oppression

All fear is bondage.

No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.

While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us.

Because of fear, people who have civil rights can't use them

Your life begins to end the moment you start being silent about the things that matter.

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

You can change your position, without changing your condition. We are no further from slavery now, than we was after the Emancipation.

Yes, indeed, if some of these boys are a bit soft and chicken-hearted and hesitate, they shoot them immediately, a dozen bullets through the skin and that's that. In a way it's got to be done and what does it matter to the officers? They get their pesetas all the same and that's all they care about.

But, as my sister says, 'there must always be poor people so that now that I'm rich I can shit on them.

Her kad?n, bir erke?in üzerindeki gücü ne kadar fazlaysa, gitmenin tek yolunun da kaçmak oldu?unu hisseder. Kraliçe oldu?u için kaçak olmak zorundad?r.

Indecent Theology is a theology which problematises and undresses the mythical layers of multiple oppression in Latin America, a theology which, finding its point of departure at the crossroads of Liberation Theology and Queer Thinking, will reflect on economic and theological oppression with passion and imprudence. An

But of one thing I was certain. I couldn't undo four hundred years of social injustice with a pretty dress and a soft voice.

And they are ignorant that the purpose of the sword is to save every man from slavery.

Take care what you say! I'll have no hard words. Wretch! If I am a wretch, who made me one? If I hate you and myself and the world, who made me hate it? I was born free - as free as you are. Why should I be sent to herd with beasts, and condemned to this slavery, worse than death? Tell me that, Maurice Frere - tell me that!

Cooper said nothing. "Jesus." Quinn rubbed at his eyes. "Wait. How does this get him what he wants? Things are worse now for abnorms than ever before. The microchipping, the hate crimes, hell, every third congressman holding press conferences to say we need to lock you all up.

Hell was born when some decided others weren't people.

First they came for the revolutionaries, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a revolutionary. Then they came for the intellectuals, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't an intellectual. Then they came for the tier ones, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a tier one. Then they came for the brilliants, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a brilliant. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.

people burn books, and that they ban books is, in a way, a good sign. It's a good sign because it means books have power. When people burn books, it's because they're afraid of what's inside them...

When people burn books, it's because they're afraid of what's inside them, and there's the thing: to be afraid of the contents means that they have power.

A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

One of the things about totalitarianism is that people disappear, and you can't find out what happened to them.

What is needed for really good tyranny is an unquestionable idea or authority. Political disagreement is political disagreement. But political disagreement with a theocracy is heresy.