Quotes About Oppression

Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

There will be no more protests. No more dissension. No more violence. There will be only one voice. The voice of Ravinia. The voice of Halla. Your voice." "There goes freedom of speech," I said.

The average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.

Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness.

Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

Better freedom with a crust, than slavery with every luxury.

Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for nations.

I realized that democracy is indivisible, or rather, that freedom is indivisible. There are many clown-democracies in the Arab world, which have nothing to do with freedom.

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing.

Until racial justice and freedom is a reality in this land, our union will remain profoundly imperfect.

It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver.

The dead hand has too long hampered the freedom of the living.

The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

We have not enjoyed unmolested those rights which the constitution of the U.S.A. and our Charters grant.

To die hating them, that was freedom