Quotes About Oppression

what recently nurtured the tyranny was nothing other than our inaction … Weakened by the pleasure of peace we learned to live like slaves

first recorded example of a man telling a woman to 'shut up';

we should be thinking more about the fault-lines and fractures that underlie dominant male discourse.

No one has ever framed a better critique of Roman imperial power than the words put into the mouths of rebels against Rome by Roman writers themselves.

They create desolation and call it peace There

in the reign of the emperor Nero, when someone had the bright idea to make slaves wear uniforms, it was rejected on the grounds that this would make clear to the slave population just how numerous they were.

Rome had been under the rule of a mad sadist somewhere between a clinical psychopath and a Stalin.

a reminder that the body beautiful was not so very far from the body brutalised.

All too often, even the most glamorous rebels are just as unappealing, under the surface, as the imperialist tyrants themselves.

He sums this up in a pithy sentence: 'They called it, in their ignorance, "civilisation", but it was really part of their enslavement' ('Humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset').

they create desolation and call it peace'

They called it, in their ignorance, "civilisation", but it was really part of their enslavement

The Nazis understand everything except humour.

The white man oppresses the half-blood, the half-blood oppresses the full-blood, and everybody takes out their anger, despair, and feeling of helplessness on the women.

Raymond Yellow Thunder, a gentle, sober Pine Ridge elder; he was attacked by some white racists who stripped him naked from the waist down, forced him to dance at gunpoint, and then beat him to death—just for the fun of it.

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

The FBI had staged the whole Beck-McClosky incident from beginning to end, possibly threatening Beck with long jail terms for his various crimes unless he cooperated. Later they tried to justify their assault on Crow Dog's place by pressing phony charges. We

It takes a particular type of human being to want to be a hack. Half of their waking hours they are prisoners themselves, inmates by their own free will. Uneducated and underpaid, the only thing they have going for them is feeling superior to the helpless prisoners. Here, at last, are men they can look down upon because they have them in their power. If

White men invented whiskey and brought it to America. They manufacture, advertise, and sell it to us. They make the profit on it and cause the conditions that make Indians drink in the first place.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

Racism breeds racism in reverse.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power. That goes for the U.S.A as well as for Russia or any other country in the world.