Quotes About Oppression

That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem

Praxis is about applying one's knowledge to challenge oppressive systems and unequal traditions. It is related to the well-known phrase "the personal is political" espoused by many advocates of the second-wave women's movement.

Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles. –JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is … the most indispensable of duties. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

Yes. I know all about how the French burned my people alive in cauldrons of molasses. How they mutilated and tortured Haitian prisoners, digging pits on the beach and waiting for the tide to roll in so they would drown. In Port-au-Prince," I tell them, "the emperor's soldiers invited all mulâtres to a ball. Then at the stroke of midnight, he announced that the men would be put to death. They killed them right there, in front of their wives.

This is what your faith means, she told Miss Broadstairs silently. You can dress it up with cherubs if you wish, but the man who painted this picture was rather more honest. He knew that it all boils down to a threat to keep people in line. That sketchy promise of Heaven if you do what you're told - and the certainty of endless torture if you don't. Take that, peasant. Now back to the fields and don't even think about improving your lot.

The world was fucked up. It was hard to say how exactly, but we could feel it. There was injustice, lots of it, we saw it as a dull shape coming into focus.

and give me insults, give me economic discrimination, give me the darkened parking lot of a windowless queer bar, give me fleets of bigots and books banned in libraries across america, feed the world with lies about my life and plop a second helping of oppression on my plate and thank you for not making me straight.

It was a huge obsession taking over my life, every injustice leading logically to a related and worse injustice until I was standing in the center of a pulsating ring of pain and torture and oppression and the only real solution was to just kill yourself. Just get off the fucking fucked-up planet.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"?

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"?

God's self-revelation to humanity does not occur from the centers of world power but in the margins of society.

American religion scholar George "Tink" Tinker, wrestling with the role Jesus played in the lives of his people, concludes that liberation for indigenous folk begins with a clear understanding that Jesus, in whose name well-intending missionaries justified cultural and physical genocide, is not the answer. Salvation for those crushed under Christendom

Satan's metaphysical existence can never be separated from the politics of domination, specifically colonialism. It provides vides the dominant culture with the ability to depict those whom they conquer, oppress, and repress as the Other.

In prison there's no bad, everything's worse. Worse bellyache, worse misery, worse sadness--the worst of the worst. Jailers and judges seem like people without reason, deranged. Compliance with rules and regulations which have nothing to do with reality turns them into madmen, at least they seem such to those not under the strange influence of the law.

Hablen, sigan hablando —dijo Carvajal después de un largo silencio—; sigan hablando! —¡Hablemos de la libertad! —murmuró el estudiante. —¡Vaya una ocurrencia! —se le interpuso el sacristán—; ¡hablar de la libertad en la cárcel! —Y los enfermos ¿no hablan de la salud en el hospital?...

De cierto que no, y no por su bella gracia, sino porque la mujer es pájaro que no se aviene a vivir sin jaula, y porque pocos serían los leños que traigo a memeches para rompérselos encima —

That which the fascists hate, above all else, is intelligence.

We today live on a planet of "robots" directed and managed by the Jews towards a tragic fatal end, towards the abyss and chaos.

Oppression is often made possible by a new technological advance—sometimes as dramatic as the introduction of farming, sometimes as apparently trivial as the stirrup.

if Christ had returned to preach his message of liberation in the Middle Ages, he would have been crucified again and again by the leaders of that very church whose worldly power was built on his name.

according to Sorokin. More recent and disturbing examples might include the Nazi interlude in Germany, the communist regimes in Russia and China, and the Islamic revival in Iran.

All social controls, for instance, are ultimately based on a threat to the survival instinct. The people of an oppressed country obey their conquerors because they want to go on living.

si Cristo hubiese regresado para predicar su mensaje de liberación en la Edad Media, habría sido crucificado de nuevo por los dirigentes de la misma iglesia cuyo poder mundano se había levantado en su nombre.