Quotes About Oppression

They use fear to control us, they control us to make us afraid. One more reason to be brave.

In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression.

As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.

Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go.

Although it would lead me to believe otherwise, fear has little interest in intimidating me. Rather, it much prefers to enslave me.

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.

Finance is a slave's word.

George Bush doesn't care about black people... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food... they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us.

The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.

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

My people are scared of the air around them, they always have an excuse not to fight for freedom.

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

You can't stop a revolution from breathin', so to beat 'em they offer people the illusion of freedom.

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.

[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.

I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death.