Quotes About Oppression

He who believes in the words of a dictator is the king of the fools!

He who loves a dictator is much more dangerous than the dictator himself.

No good end exists for any dictator!

Permit no man to be a king and permit also no man to be a slave!

Stop obeying a dictator; you will then see that he is nothing! Stop obeying a king; you will then see that he is nothing! If you refuse the Devil, you will then see that he will shade away!

The power of every dictator has two main sources: His psychopathic mind and the support of the very easily deceivable ignorant masses!

There is a very easy and very peaceful way to get rid of a dictator: Get out of the system!

There is no justice here; there is no justice there; there is no justice anywhere!

Throughout the world, the very moment a legitimate government starts fascist implementations, it loses its legitimacy! When a government becomes illegitimate, it is no longer a government but an outlaw!

When a dictator dies, oxygen increases in the world!

Comedy brings religious persecutors, dictators, and tyrants to their knees faster than any other weapon.

We didn't let them do anything to us, Travanion," Beatriss said fiercely, "They did it without out permission.

Prisoners of war had] definitely more privileges. They could go anywhere in town they wanted; we could only go in the black section. And of course, as I said, on the train, they could ride in the back of the train or anywhere on the train they wanted, but we had to get in the car right behind the coal car or the baggage car, whichever one was there. And buses, they sat in front and we sat in the back.

When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit, because their strength is not adequate to resist.

I have realized that for those who live in the West, freedom is so often something they take for granted. It has always been there for them. It is their unnoticed, unrecognized, constant companion and friend. But for those of us who come from countries like Sudan, freedom is wonderful and precious.

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.

He who devises evil for another falls at last into his own pit, and the most cunning finds himself caught by what he had prepared for another. But virtue without guile, erect like the lofty palm, rises with greater vigour when it is oppressed.

Nós, mulheres, estamos sempre sob a sombra da lâmina: impedidas de viver enquanto novas; acusadas de não morrer quando já velhas.

O que fizeram esses brancos foi ocuparem-nos.Não foi só a terra: ocuparam-nos a nós,acamparam no meio das nossas cabeças.Somos madeira que apanhou chuva.Agora não acendemos nem damos sombra.Temos que secar à luz de um sol que ainda não há.Esse sol só pode nascer dentro de nós.

Uma mulher não pode existir sozinha, sob o risco de deixar de ser mulher. Ou se converte, para tranquilidade de todos, numa outra coisa: numa louca, numa velha, numa feiticeira. Ou, como diria Silvestre, numa puta. Tudo menos mulher. Foi isto que eu disse a Noci: neste mundo só somos alguém se formos esposa.

Meu Deus, como somos injustos com o nosso corpo. De quem nos esquecemos mais? é dos pés, coitados, que rastejam para nos suportar. São eles que carregam tristeza e felicidade. Mas como estão longe dos olhos, deixamos os pés sozinhos, como se não fossem nossos. "Só por estarmos por cima calcamos os nossos pés. Assim começa a injustiça neste mundo.

Vinte e cinco é para vocês que vivem nos bairros de cimento. Para nós, negros pobres que vivemos na madeira e zinco, o nosso dia ainda está por vir.

A felicidade é uma coisa que os poderosos criaram para ilusão dos mais pobres.