Quotes About Oppression

She held out, did not speak directly to her captors except to curse them. She offered no cooperation. There were moments when she did not know why she resisted. What would she be giving up if she answered her captors' questions? What did she have to lose beyond misery, isolation, and silence? Yet she held out.

This country has slipped back two hundred years.

When men have absolute power over women who are strangers, the men rape.

The man she worked for had a library—a whole big room full of books." "He let you read them?" I asked. "He didn't let me near them." Travis gave me a humorless smile. "I read them anyway. My mother would sneak them to me." Of course. Slaves did that two hundred years ago. They sneaked around and educated themselves as best they could, sometimes suffering whipping, sale, or mutilation for their efforts. "Did

First-person American slave narratives should have ceased being written when the last American citizen born into institutionalized slavery died.

O que Weylin dissera? Que ser educada não significava ser esperta. Ele tinha certa razão. Nada na minha educação ou no conhecimento do futuro havia me ajudado a escapar.

Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of "wrong" ideas.

that we die, our very humanity slayed, whenever we choose to remain silent in the face of tyranny.

The city hung on him, weighed him down with stone on all sides; it clung to him with the tar of dozens of eyes he could see, and hundreds more he couldn't. Lord, how much easier things were in the forest.

My life had lost its relish when liberty was gone.

Qué poco sabían estas personas que las masas siempre dan la bienvenida al lobo disfrazado en la piel de cordero! ¡Qué poco conocían del significado de "circo y pan para la gente"!

As a matter of fact, the idea of death seeped into our blood. We would die, anyway, whatever happened. We would be gassed, we would be burned, we would be hanged, or we would be shot. The members of the underground at least knew that if they died, they would die fighting for something.

The Nordic Supermen knew how to profit from everything. Immense casks were used to gather the human grease which had melted down at high temperatures. It was not surprising that the camp soap had such a peculiar odor. Nor was it astonishing that the internees became suspicious at the sight of certain pieces of fat sausage!

?ycie w t?umie jest gorsze ni? wi?zienie.

I could feel the huge, unbearable burden of my own body.

The state ceases to impose the shackles of daily oppression, but helps people realize their hopes and dreams. And Man is not just a cog in the system, not just a playing role, but a free Creature.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Now, Sir, for my own part, as I naturally hate the face of a tyrant, the farther off he is removed from me, the better pleased am I. The generality of mankind also are of my way of thinking, and have unanimously created one king, whose election at once diminishes the number of tyrants, and puts tyranny at the greatest distance from the greatest number of people.

Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. … And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

In a world where liberty is in very short supply, there are worse heroes than a man who never stopped worshiping freedom.

There were no peasants doffing their hats here; no one was exempt from paying taxes; all men, in fact, were born equal.

La poésie est l'arme du pauvre.

kad?na dara?ac?na ç?kma hakk? tan?n?yor; öyleyse kürsüye ç?kma hakk? da olmal?d?r.