Quotes About Oppression

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.

Our nonviolence vis-?-vis the British Government has been the nonviolence of the weak.

The government burns down whole cities while the people are forbidden to light lamps.

An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group.

The British government is a murder machine.

But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism.

A hated government does not long survive.

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist.

It is dangerous to be right, when the government is wrong

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of governing.

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed.

Supporting a dictator is no different than eating a poisonous mushroom!

A government that can take all and can seize all, a government that doesn't trust its citizens, a government that says it's their way or the highway... that's the scary part.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

Always, at every period, the few were the banner bearers of a great idea, of liberating effort. Not so the mass, the leaden weight of which does not let it move.

Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally.

The State is, and always has been, the great single enemy of the human race, its liberty, happiness, and progress.

Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.

There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.

Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.