Quotes About Oppression

Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

En flykting, jagad som ett djur fast kungalik. En konung över folk i bur och folk av lik.

Por cada segundo que pasa sin que aspiremos a democratizar los lugares donde se decide lo importante, aumenta sin cesar el enriquecimiento privado ilegítimo y el sufrimiento gratuito de la gente corriente.

En lugar del padre nuestro, los ateos del D.F. amanecemos con la retahíla de: sálvame mano de esta pinche cloaca en que me metiste, protégeme de la bola de ojetes que quieren acabar con nosotros, sálvame de la ley y sus guardianes.

La película habría de filmarse en las vísperas de la elección de 1960, en medio de una ferviente fiebre anticomunista producida por el triunfo de la Revolución cubana y Wayne dejó clara su posición: quería una historia que pudiera «vender el ideal estadounidense a los países amenazados por la dominación comunista» y en el film se repite varias veces la frase «soportar la opresión o rendirse

Si en este país hay un sospechoso, es la policía. LUIS GONZÁLEZ DE ALBA

Contra-revolucionário é aquele que luta contra a revolução, mas também é contra-revolucionária a pessoa que utiliza sua influência para conseguir uma casa, depois para conseguir dois carros, depois viola o racionamento e, por fim, tem tudo o que o povo não tem.

país dominado por las deudas, el analfabetismo, el clero, los agiotistas y los militares.

Los agraviados y sus herederos seguimos pensando que Iturbide no era de los nuestros. Y que mejor vaya y chingue a su madre.

Mi vida no valdrá nada si la gente de Félix Díaz se entera de que soy el autor de México bárbaro".

Low-intensity authoritarianism corrodes pluralism; new economic and political elites emerge, and their agendas take precedence over the best interests and the needs of their people.

Anna is something wrong " he asked his brow furrowed. Yes I want to say. You ran a prison camp for Jews. You keep my parents locked in the ghetto. You let your wife's father be killed and would kill Jacob too if given the chance. Your wretched Gestapo came to our house and now Lukasz might have to leave us. Let me count the ways. Of course I did not dare to say any of this. "No Herr Kommandant " I replied managing to keep my voice even. "Everything is fine.

freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Femeile pl?teau pentru toat? lumea: pentru b?rbat, pentru Dumnezeu, pentru lege, pentru boier, pentru lipsa de nutre? ?i chiar ?i pentru vremea rea.

Joséphine avait peur, si peur. Elle aurait pu indiquer précisément où elle avait peur, mesurer la longueur, l'épaisseur, le diamètre de la barre qui lui écrasait le plexus et l'empêchait de respirer.

But then you can't hope for much justice in the subcontinent, where fulfillment comes to very few among the needy and restless millions, and where aspiration itself can feel like a luxury. In Kashmir, isolated and oppressed and then dragged into the larger world of competing men and nations and murderous ideologies, more people have been confronted with this awareness in the last ten years than in all of its tormented modern history.

If the end of tension is what you want, fascism is the thing for you.

Victims becoming torturers is such a classic historical pattern that we could formulate, regarding any revolution whatever, this iron law : combat oppression; beware of the oppressed.

The far Left has never gotten over communism and once again demonstrates that its true passion is not freedom, but slavery in the name of justice.

This is what free people never understand. A slave isn't a person who's being treated as a thing. A slave is a thing, as much in her own estimation as in anybody else's.

but perhaps no kindness was possible between owner and slave, only varying degrees of brutality?

They were men, and free. I was a woman, and a slave. And that's a chasm no amount of sentimental chit-chat about shared imprisonment should be allowed to obscure.

The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.