Quotes About Oppression

People who practice freedom of expression are terrorizing our grammatical way of life.

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic.

Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing...[and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight for anything else.

D?-i societ??ii aripi ?i le va arde pe rug.

Entonces sentí una tremenda opresión en el pecho, una opresión en la que no parecía estar afectado ningún órgano físico, pero que era algo asfixiante, insoportable. Ahí, en el pecho, cerca de la garganta, ahí debe estar el alma, hecha un ovillo.

En política latinoamericana la cosa no es poder ni querer sino joder.

Cuando la guerra se disfraza de paz, es la peor de las paces. Invade como ayuda, pero deja cenizas por donde pasa y muertes por doquier. La paz se vuelve hipócrita, los mansos no le sirven. Agrede a los otoños y les pisa las hojas. Y por si fuera poco, su razón de ser tiende a la sinrazón.

le puedo asegurar que cuando una mujer se pierde, siempre hay un hombre ruin, cretino, denigrante, que primero le hizo perder la fe en sí misma».

Los tiranos y los déspotas suelen tener la costumbre de torturar, invadir y asesinar. Hay

La tristeza, ahora que la tocaba, era algo más bien asfixiante, pegajoso, una cosa fría que uno no podía sacarse de la cara, de los pulmones, del estómago.

The writer harked back to Lord Byron's maiden speech in the House three years before: "I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces in Turkey, but never, under the most despotic of infidel Governments, did I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return in the very heart of a Christian country." Mrs.

Old Mother God, Old Father God— they keep us trapped. And we do give up. We pull the covers over our head, and go back to sleep. Only to dream of old dragons, old alligators, old crocodiles drinking our blood. To dream of cold-eyed lawmakers saying, This is the way it's always been done. It works. It will stay this way. And you will obey.

Where men burn books, they will also in the end burn men.

In our law, a slave was a thing.

The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in place? Can my make-up be seen? Are they going to whip me? No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought? Where is my freedom of speech? My life, is it liveable? What's going on in the political prisons?

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!

We're all the same inside the cage. When they put the collars on us.

Even before the Civil War, outsiders from Catholic Ireland and from Asia had been made to feel unwelcome in "the land of the free." And this was to say nothing of the black population, whose bondage remained a gross contradiction to the lofty sentiments of the Declaration of Independence.

For where man's strength ends, God's strength begins, provided faith is present and waits on him. And when the oppression comes to an end, it becomes manifest what great strength was hidden under the weakness. Even so, Christ was powerless on the cross; and yet there he performed his mightiest work and conquered sin, death, world, hell, devil, and all evil. Thus all the martyrs were strong and overcame. Thus, too, all who suffer and are oppressed overcome.

None of it's about what God wants, it's just about men wanting to run everything and girls like me knowing their place. Behaving PROPERLY.

If all poor people refused to fight, he argued, the rich would have no army and there would be no war.