Quotes About Oppression

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In other words, they were unwilling to tolerate conservative speech, which they were intolerant of conservative speech.

The way I see it, all governments are just a different flavour of bastard.

Once a person gets outside, he gets all these ideas of being free, and that plays merry hell for a government." He nodded firmly. "Keep a man inside behind steel walls and thick windows, tell him that what you do, it's for his own protection. Make him think he relies on you, let him think the prison is his home, and he'll thank you for it.

In attacking the young, the liberal, and the black, Daley was in the mainstream of America's mass prejudices. The Democratic party may have suffered by his actions, but Daley came out...even more popular than before because "bust their heads" was the mood of the land and Daley had swung the biggest club.

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick."

There is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: "for reasons of state."

I hated life in the Soviet Union. You had to pretend something you didn't feel.

The struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

Little Man turned around and watched saucer-eyed as a bus bore down on him spewing clouds of red dust like a huge yellow dragon breathing fire. Little Man headed toward the bank, but it was too steep. He ran frantically along the road looking for a foothold and, finding one, hopped onto the bank, but not before the bus had sped past enveloping him in a scarlet haze while laughing white faces pressed against the bus windows. Little

Roll of thunder hear my cry   Over the water bye and bye   Ole man comin' down the line   Whip in hand to beat me down But I ain't gonna let him Turn me 'round

Roll of thunder hear my cry Over the water bye and bye Ole man comin' down the line Whip in hand to beat me down But I ain't gonna let him Turn me 'round

Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.

I know people get tired of hearing it but black people have got to keep saying it, throwing our conditions up into these people's faces until something is done about the way they have treated us. We've just got to keep it in front of their eyes and their ears like the Jews have done. We've got to make them know and understand just how evil the things are that they did to us over all these years and are still doing to us today.

Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.

We cannot help but be interested in the stories of people that history pushes aside so thoughtlessly.

All her life, Sunja had heard this sentiment from other women, that they must suffer—suffer as a girl, suffer as a wife, suffer as a mother—die suffering. Go-saeng—the word made her sick.

Living every day in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage

Shall we exploit because we have been exploited,

He felt an overwhelming sense of brokenness in the people. The country had been under the colonial government for over two decades, and no one could see an end in sight. It felt like everyone had given up.

was still hard for a Korean to become a Japanese citizen, and there were many who considered such a thing shameful—for a Korean to try to become a citizen of its former oppressor.

To her, being Korean was just another horrible encumbrance, much like being poor or having a shameful family you could not cast off.