Quotes About Oppression

[Referring to the Arab Spring:] The people were ruled for decades in fear of regimes. This year the fear was overtaken by hope and dreams of change.

In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

Issues such as gender discrimination, racism, and national chauvinism must be recast not only as cultural and social regressions but as evidence of the ills produced by hierarchy. A growing public awareness must be fostered in order to recognize that oppression includes not only exploitation but also domination, and that it is based not only on economic causes but on cultural particularisms that divide people according to sexual, ethnic, and similar traits.

Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has succeeded in keeping the State in check. The problem of the State is evidently as far from solution as ever.

The number of men sitting at Atlanta and Leavenworth for revolting against the extortions of the government is always ten times as great as the number of government officials condemned for oppressing the taxpayers to their own gain. (Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy, pp.

For all governments—but especially democratic governments—must work hard at persuading their subjects that all of their deeds of oppression are really in their subjects' best interests

L'endoctrinement de la jeunesse dans les écoles était l'un des principaux piliers de ces États esclavagistes. En vérité, la principale différence entre les horreurs du XXème siècle et les despotismes plus anciens est que ces tyrannies modernes ont dû reposer sur un soutien des masses plus direct, et que par conséquent l'alphabétisation obligatoire et l'endoctrinement ont joué un rôle crucial.

War is Mass Murder, Conscription is Slavery, Taxation is Robbery.

I think forcing people to uncover their head is as tyrannical as forcing them to cover it.

As the old saying goes, negroes are nonviolent with those who are violent toward them and violent toward those who are nonviolent toward them. Selfish

Although some will confuse the proud demonstration of spirit with what they consider an inferior rhythmic being, we note with great pride that Afrikans are the only people on Earth who can take something as mundane and monotonous as walking and elevate it into an art form. We are the only ones whose stroll is an overt yet esoteric expression of defiance against European aggression and oppression while at the same time gloriously beautiful. That

Africa has been brought back to its knees and this generation can't take it any longer.

Being under a tyrant, the nation will cease to expand, development and life will get tougher and worst as time passes by.

Dictatorship is when the government can easily control and manipulate citizens' demands.

Exploitation is considered as a major sin when it comes to socialism.

Many nations are free by name, but they are still living under tyranny.

Most of the leaders are still haunted by the nightmares of slavery, mostly mental colonisation in general.

No man should become a master of another. You must resist falling into this category.

The Africans have suffered so much from the political oppression, economic exploitation and social degradation.

The outsiders are still the true rulers of those countries who didn't gain their full independence.

The poor man has sold his freedom of expression to the state.

The takeover of the Amerindians appears to them as the beginning of the Apocalypse.

There can't be peace without freedom and if you claim otherwise, then I can ensure you that your peace will be short lived.

Those who are blessed with the natural resources wish to keep all the wealth to themselves only.