Quotes About Oppression

mientras respira el tirano, la libertad se asfixia".

No entiendo a esta humanidad que degüella a los pueblos y perdona a los déspotas Robespierre

The cruel social arbiters of Indian society were denying individual merit. In their eyes, Ambedkar was simply a Mahar, and they could not care less if his scholarship was as vast as the sky.

Why didn't an epic poet ever write a word about our lives?

Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. I have always looked on the silence of those who do not react or who indeed applaud as the real death of a woman or man.

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

The worst violence was reserved for the Jews. There were 690 documented pogroms -- with over 3,000 reported murders -- during the two weeks following the deceleration of the October Manifesto. The Rightist groups played a leading role in these programs, either by inciting the crowed against the Jews or by planning them from the start.

We were all victims of an oppressive system, but that mattered far less to us than our deep bonding with our owners.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.

A policeman's job is only easy in a police state.

Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

We, God willing, will continue to fight you and will continue martyrdom operations inside and outside the United States until you abandon your oppression and foolish acts.

I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in and the West in general into an unbearable hell and a choking life.

Ama içlerinden birine ufac?k da olsa gülümsersem, sadece bu bile adamlardan birinin beni kendine e? olarak seçmesi ve benim zorla evlendirilmem anlam?na gelebilir. Bir kad?n?n kaderine karar vermek için bir gülümseme yetip de art?yor.

Who are jails made for? Only poor people are put in jails! They are probably just the weak and honest people who don't know how to trick others. Just because they aren't craft or evil enough to get by through tricking other people, they get driven into a corner and end up doing something stupid, like stealing two or three yen. And for that they have to go to jail for five or ten years!

Apartheid continues to thrive with the same strength but in a different form, and this puts a heavier burden on the shoulders of those who wish to fight against Apartheid types of injustice.

For every journalist that is killed, many other people are pressured to silence.

Though Apartheid policies were officially rescinded in South Africa, the Apartheid mentality and various other forms of racial discrimination still thrive in the world.

The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

We live, deaf to the land beneath us,Ten steps away no one hears our speeches,But where there's so much as half a conversationThe Kremlin's mountaineer will get his mention.

One by one forging his laws, to be flungLike horseshoes at the head, the eye, or the groin.And every killing is a treatFor the broad-chested Ossete.

Un tempo non era permesso a nessuno di pensare liberamente. Ora sarebbe permesso, ma nessuno ne è più capace. Ora la gente vuole pensare ciò che si suppone debba pensare. E questo lo considera libertà.