Quotes About Oppression

The Negro's great stumbling block is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice,… who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom.

There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice.

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."

We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness."

It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro.

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.

Ast?zi armele sunt diluate într-un aer È™i o mâncare care otr?vesc. Puterea nu mai are nevoie de puÈ™ti, de lag?re È™i de sârm? ghimpata, nici de tancuri, totalitarismul este diluat în atmosfera È™i în materia gândirii noastre

As so often in history, equality for some can only be achieved by discriminating against all the rest.

He had no intention of fighting for a country that he saw as holding men down and offering them nothing except back-breaking work. He had said as much to his commanding officer. He had also robbed the army stores blind; the black market was still thriving at the time, and he had used that for his own ends.

Make me wanna hollerThe way they do my life

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

La carga del racismo resulta más pesada para quienes sufren el desprecio de sus supuestos superiores.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?