Quotes About Oppression

The police are often the frontline for surveillance, control, and dissemination of terror in poor communities.

It is not just solitary confinement, however, that has exposed mass incarceration as generative of torture. Prison overcrowding and unwillingness of the U.S. prison system to commit resources for its burgeoning elderly, who are aging behind bars, also create conditions of torture. Law

People today are lifting up their cries and forging new actions from an oppressive regime in our day. At

Further, there are structures of domination, again with histories and social patterns that limit many while entitling others in unfair ways (white supremacism, gender and sexual injustice, class exploitation, nationalisms, et al.). As

Critique of the 1 percent's domination predates, it should be recalled, the "Occupy" movement's popularizing of the notion. In fact, Martin Luther King, Jr. remarked often on the notion of the 1 percent in his early speeches of the 1950s: "They tell me that one tenth of one percent of the population controls more than forty percent of the wealth. Oh America, how often have you taken necessities from the masses to give luxury to the classes.

Hasan Pasha also gave the green light for Turks and Greeks to take whatever action they pleased against any Albanians they found: killing them was not a crime. Continuing his march, he executed all the Albanians he encountered, setting fire to a monastery where other were hiding and offering five sequins for every Albanian head brought him.

I tried my best to fight oppression, but America's at her happiest ruled by liars.

Never forget: dupes believe, slaves fear, and rebels defy.

the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [the war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.

However, the erosion of individual sovereignty, free will, and self-sufficiency necessarily give way to dependence, conformity, and finally tyranny.

wrote what is considered by radical activists a seminal essay in the far-left Nation, entitled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty," focused on race and poverty. They bluntly stated their intention: "It is our purpose to advance a strategy which affords the basis for a convergence of civil rights organizations,

Asked what kind of government Germany should work toward, Pius answered, according to Leiber's notes: "Any government without Hitler.

This is how planet Earth earned its shameful reputation of undervaluing people by ethnicity, religion, gender, and whatnot. At some point man's impression was labeled the voice of God. But man's impression always contained the blind flaw of humanness.

The greatest conspiracy on the planet is that we need to oppress, kill, and pollute in order to get our needs met

The machine enslaves, the hand sets free.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also prison.

To the end of homicidal dictators with weird black bangs and puny square mustaches!" The

To the end of homicidal dictators with weird black bangs and puny square mustaches!

But the Nazi occupation of Italy and the Catholic underground railroad, which was formed to save the Italian Jews, have received scant attention.

Putting your boot on another man's head and stealing him blind, until someone with a bigger boot comes along to kick you out of the way?

First the Communists killed all the smart people who made things work in the cities. And now they want to make doing good at anything at all a punishable crime! What has happened to the world?

For what? Putting your boot on another man's head and stealing him blind, until someone with a bigger boot comes along to kick you out of the way?

We have ears everywhere, you know, Father. The Gestapo is like God. We hear all things.

First the Communists killed all the smart people who made things work in the cities. And now they want to make doing good at anything at all a punishable crime! What has happened to the world? How did we end up in an asylum?