Quotes About Oppression

was the idyllic fantasy of Europeans fed up with the world they had. They saw this new Garden of Eden as a gift from God. One that offered escape from the problems that plagued them—hopelessness, debt, religious oppression. Escape too from the responsibility of rebuilding a system that was fundamentally flawed. Flee, don't fix.

When we commit to waking up and revolting against the ignorance and oppression of classism, racism, sexism, and all forms of greed, hatred, and delusion in the world, the first step we must take in that revolt is a personal dedication to purify our actions from these things that cause harm.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

To those who insisted that the lot of the free white laborer was worse than that of the slave, Frederick Douglass liked to point out that his old position on the plantation had been vacant since his departure, and encouraged them to apply.

If you are a white male, you don't deserve to live. You are a cancer, you're a disease, white males have never contributed anything positive to the world!

I'd been at the mercy of a prick on a power trip, the kind of buttoned-up bantam rooster who gets off on control and then, when you resist him, tells you that you've got issues with control.

Die Formverachtung geht auf Kosten der Minderheit.

By 1939 the Gulag was the largest employer in Europe.

For the "new democracies" in Eastern Europe, meeting this standard "would be commensurate with their passage from totalitarianism to democratic states." Eizenstat is a senior US government official and a prominent supporter of Israel. Yet, judging by the respective claims of Native Americans and Palestinians, neither the US nor Israel has yet made the transition.85

The police have come to represent not just racist brutality but also the chief enforcers of a heartless, corrupt, unjust

I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.

le roman « L'Enveloppe noire » (1986) proposait une allégorie du quotidien socialiste avec de forts accents politiques, à une époque où la dictature encourageait l'écrivain « esthète » détaché de la réalité du moment. (p. 49)

Slaves were never allowed to talk to white people other than their masters or someone their masters knew, as they were afraid the white man might have the slave run away. The masters aimed to keep their slaves in ignorance and the ignorant slaves were all in favor of the Rebel army. Only the more intelligent were in favor of the Union army.

You know, the nigger was wild till the white man made what he has out of the nigger. He done educate them real smart.

Lord." Trustin' was de only hope of de poor black critters in dem days. Us just prayed for strength to endure it to de end. We didn't 'spect nothin' but to stay in bondage till we died. I

Ole Massa always see that we get plenty to eat. O' course it was no fancy rations. Just corn bread, milk, fat meat, and 'lasses, but the Lord knows that was lots more than other poor niggers got. Some of them had such bad masters. Us poor niggers never allowed to learn anything. All the readin' they ever hear was when they was carried through the big Bible. The massa say that keep the slaves in they places.

Ever since I realized there waz someone callt/ a colored girl an evil woman a bitch or a nag/ i been tryin not to be that & leave bitterness/ in somebody else's cup...

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.

Hay?r, ben de biliyorum; ama bak O?uz, sen de ötekiler gibi bu 'badire'yi kolayca atlatsayd?n, bu haks?zl???n ac?s?n? çekmeseydin, bu mektepte olup bitenleri unutup gidecektin. Art?k bu haks?zl?klar bir daha akl?ndan ç?kmaz. Bunlar haf?zana öyle bir yerle?ir ki, günün birinde haks?zl?klar? ortadan kald?rmak için belki harekete bile geçersin.

Ve biz onlara diyece?iz ki: Hesapla?ma günü geldi. ?imdiye kadar yaln?z din kitaplar?nda yarg?land?n?z. Biz fakirler, zavall?lar, yar?m yamalaklar, bu kitaplar? okuyup teselli olurken içinizden güldünüz. Ve ç?karlar?n?za bakt?n?z.

To Priests, Soldiers, Judges- to men who rear, lead or govern men I dedicate these pages of murder and blood.

Yes, there are some backs on the street which cry for the knife.