Quotes About Oppression

Blacks should be used to play whites. For centuries we had probed their faces, the angles of their bodies, the sounds of their voices, and even their odors. Often our survival had depended on the accurate reading of a white man's chuckle or the disdainful wave of a white woman's hand.

You mean the War of Colonial Aggression?

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Like all true tyrants, he has divided them, and makes them spend their heart's hatred on one another." "But

Je li vlast od Boga? Ako nije, odakle joj pravo da nam sudi? Ako jest, kako može da pogriješi? Ako nije, sruši?emo je; ako jest, sluša?emo je. Ako nije od Boga, šta nas obavezuje da trpimo nepravde? Ako je od Boga, jesu li to nepravde, ili kazna zbog viših ciljeva. Ako nije, onda je nada mnom i nad tobom i nad svima nama izvršeno nasilje, i onda smo opet mi krivi što ga podnosimo.

Sad smo jednaki, unesre?ili su nas zli ljudi.

With every form of slavery that has ended, new ones emerge that are more personal and sinister than the older forms.

Cry out for justice in the name of those who suffer injustice.

JIM CROW LAWS WERE ENFORCED IN MUCH OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH FROM 1877 TO THE MID-1960S. THESE LOCAL AND STATE LAWS KEPT BLACK PEOPLE AND WHITE PEOPLE SEPARATE.

I shall bring him his tea and work myself to death by the time I am thirty bearing children and scrubbing floors and working in the fields digging turnips till my hands bleed and my back gives out and everyone urges me to keep on for just one more year, at which point I will die of exhaustion and the meagerness of my own life. I will love him and care for him, will never tell him to get his own tea, or sweep the ashes from the hearth or give birth to his own twelfth child himself.

All of the women in that time and place, Thea had learned, were stuffed into muslin and starched cotton and forced to sit ramrod-straight and plait their hair or pull it back off their faces with fish oil. There were shoes that laced up with a hundred eyelets, and corsets that required a special hook to open. Women were all in it together back then, as opposed to now, when one woman's experience could differ so greatly from another's that you never knew who you were talking to.

This was the world they were meant to enter: a world of fuckers.

long as man "has the physical power, as well as the conventional" to treat a woman "like a play-thing or a slave," she'd written portentously to Sophia, "woman must wait until the lion shall lie down with the lamb, before she can hope to be the friend and companion of man.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

* If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin!

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

Ahlaks?z bir bask?n?n oldu?u her ülkede, bar??ç?l ve sürekli bir sivil itaatsizlik

An ant can't make a revolution, but a monkey can do; because it owns a fist! No real revolution is ever possible without fist.

An honourable public and a dishonourable dictator cannot live together; at the end, the latter goes!

Anywhere in the world, in every oppressive country, time sooner or later comes and libertarian people sing the same song: Goodbye Mr Dictator! This is a universal law, this is a universal song.

Big fish eats small fish; oceans need revolution! Big man beats little man; world needs revolution! Big galaxies swallow little galaxies; universe needs revolution! Anything which is not ethical needs a strong revolution!

Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!

Everything is a slave of something else: Clouds, of the winds; men, of the desires; universe, of the chaos; shadows, of the light.

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