Quotes About Oppression

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.

As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it.

I was unwilling to be the good girl who respected the rules in a game designed to keep everyone but the rulemakers off balance.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

I do not think an enormous permanent underclass is a very good thing to have if you're attempting to operate something that at least pretends sometimes to be a democracy.

If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.

The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.

Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry.

No government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person.

Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.

The first duty of government is to protect the powerless from the powerful.

People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have done to the third world, I feel that these countries should fight back.

In every State, the government is nothing but a permanent conspiracy on the part of the minority against the majority, which it enslaves and fleeces.

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

Despots prefer the friendship of the dog, who, unjustly mistreated and debased, still loves and serves the man who wronged him.

Government is waging war against the people.

There's never been a good government.

When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.

We live in a regime built on force and lies. In essence, it's the same here as in Uzbekistan, except the government here is better at presenting itself to the outside world.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.