Quotes About Oppression

Francis also did everything in his power to get his people to stay at the bottom or at the edge and never at the top. He didn't even want his friars to be priests/clergy. He said, "You can't preach the gospel if you're part of the structures of power.

She makes me wash, they comb me all to thunder; she won't let me sleep in the woodshed…. The widder eats by a bell; she goes to bed by a bell; she gits up by a bell—everything's so awful reg'lar a body can't stand it.

Free speech isn't dead in Germany and Italy, merely the speakers.

Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.

East Germany was so total in its totalitarianism that everything was banned which wasn't compulsory.

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

Yes, from drinking too much beer and generally being a tyrannical egomaniac.

In sum, the struggle for our future is . . . the struggle between those who cling to patterns of domination and those working for a more equitable partnership world.

I will never, for the future, paint the portrait of a tyrant until his head lies before me on the scaffold.

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

The National Socialist Party will prevent in the future, by force if necessary, all meetings and lectures which are likely to exercise a depressing influence on the German state.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and 'liking' it.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute -- a white skin.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent, and nowhere, in all the annals of mankind, has any god succored the oppressed.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.