Quotes About Oppression

I don't think I'm any different than any woman. I mean, any woman who hasn't had her mind fucked up by male religion.

People came to this country for either money or freedom. If you don't have money, you cling to your freedoms all the more angrily. Even if smoking kills you, even if you can't afford to feed your kids, even if your kids are getting shot down by maniacs with assault rifles.

If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality even where the apparent victims see nothing wrong.

only a few victims of the Great Terror were afforded even the parody of due process that constituted a show trial.

All white people, I think, are implicated in these things so long as we participate in America in a normal way and attempt to go on leading normal lives while any one race is being cheated and tormented. But I now believe that we will probably go on leading our normal lives, and will go on participating in our nation in a normal way, unless there comes a time where Negroes can compel us by methods of extraordinary pressure to interrupt our pleasure.

It is the comfortable people, by and large - those like the Reading Teacher - who make the decisions in our society. It is the people who those decisions are going to affect who are expected to stand quietly, and watch patiently, and wait.

Were we praying, Forgive our oppressors for what they have done? Or, Forgive us for what has been done to us? Or, Forgive You for Your inscrutability?

Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.

Meu amo não podia compreender como toda essa raça de patrícios era tão malevolente e tão terrível.

Crianças que estudam para cangaceiro na escola da miséria e da exploração do homem.

Like all the men of Babylon, I have been proconsul; like all, I have been a slave. I have known omnipotence, ignominy, imprisonment.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

Em tempos de auge a conjectura de que a existência do Homem é uma quantidade constante e invariável pode entristecer ou irritar; em tempos que declinam (como este), é a promessa de que nenhum opróbrio, nenhuma calamidade nem nenhum ditador poderá empobrecer-nos.

medio siglo de violencia le había enseñado que lo más fácil y seguro es matar…

This City" (I thought) "is so horrible that its mere existence and perdurance, though in the midst of a secret desert, contaminates the past and the future and in some way even jeopardizes the stars. As long as it lasts, no one in the world can be strong or happy.

LAS TRES LECCIONES DE DESMOND TUTU La primera lección es fundamental: saber que vas a ganar. Tutu está convencido de que la injusticia no puede ser algo permanente. Esta convicción de que la justicia se puede alcanzar permitió a Mandela sobrevivir durante veintisiete años en la cárcel

he hated the white men who interfered with the manly pursuits of throat-cutting, kidnapping, slave-dealing, and fire-raising

It is written that the earth belongs to those who have fair skins and hard but foolish hearts.

Finally, it is no longer completely fantastic to think that a day may come when not the executioners alone will deny the inalienable rights of men, but when even the victims will not be able to say why it is that they are suffering injustice.

Liberdade é quando você esquece o nome do tirano.

So, when all of our people did not stop raiding, the Americans made war on all of the Navajos. They burned our crops, killed our livestock, and cut down our peach trees. They drove our people into exile. They sent us on the Long Walk.

The figure of the tyrant-monster is known to the mythologies, folk traditions, legends, and even nightmares, of the world; and his characteristics are essentially everywhere the same. He is the hoarder of the general benefit.

is only one form of government that cannot produce good writers, and that system is fascism.

Civil Wars happen when the victimized are armed. Genocide happens when they are not.