Quotes About Oppression

Men of England, wherefore plowFor the lords who lay ye low?

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave;A dupe and a deceiver; a decay;A traveler from the cradle to the graveThrough the dim light of this immortal day.

Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number Shake your chains to earth like dew We are many, they are few

At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?

Hell is a city much like London.

Men of England, heirs of Glory, Heroes of unwritten story, Nurslings of one mighty Mother, Hopes of her, and one another; Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you- Ye are many — they are few

Can man be free if women be a slave?

But my soul, From sight and sense of the polluting woe Of tyranny, had long learned to prefer Hell's freedom to the servitude of heaven.

While some say a total shutdown of religions and personal freedoms could never occur in the United States, just remember, the Russian Tzars never realized the impact of the Communist revolution until they were removed. The German people were deceived into thinking Hitler would be a positive leader. In our nation, oppressive and freedom-killing legislation would be the method used to chain targeted groups to the pillar of silence and irrelevance.

If our prayers for others mean anything at all, they cannot be cloistered away all the time in sanitised environments. Standing in the gap for the oppressed may well mean that it matters where we pray and how we pray, and that our prayers for the poor are worked out very practically.

In your life, I hope you will never oppress the Weak, that you will oppose Human Bondage in all its guises, that you will bend your Knee to no man.

Until that night, the well-fed, respectable whites had convinced themselves that slaves loved being slaves.

yet we not infrequently find that a purely local treatment relieves the patient from them, especially when the air-douche is used. A feeling of lightness, quiet and freedom takes the place of noise, fullness and oppression.

Não apenas se reduziu a quantidade de países e de pessoas praticando a democracia, como ocorreram muitos casos em que, pelo próprio voto, pela própria liberdade de expressão e organização, se escolhe o cativeiro.

Incluso en Moscú, el acceso a los mapas callejeros o a los directorios telefónicos estaba restringido durante la época soviética, por lo visto para desalentar las reuniones que pudieran alentar las críticas al régimen. En

Trotski describió en una ocasión a los perdedores como los consignados «al cubo de la basura de la historia» y no es un dato desdeñable que las ediciones sucesivas de la Bolshaya sovietskaya entsiklopediya (Gran Enciclopedia soviética) omitiera a personas, ideas y cosas que el Partido Comunista consideraba políticamente incorrectas, especialmente Trotski después de su ruptura con Stalin.

Man is born free and is everywhere in chains

I do not wonder, and you will not either, that when Indians see their wives and children starving and their last source of supplies cut off, they go to war. And then we are sent out there to kill them. It is an outrage. All tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away, they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do—fight while they can. Our treatment of the Indian is an outrage.

Global warming, police brutality, voter suppression, racism. In his hands, weighty considerations escaped the pull of gravity. Damn, what a show!

Right, wrong—those are words thrown around by those what is in power in order to sit on the backs of those what ain't.

Typical case, educated way, way beyond her IQ, with ambition stronger than ability. She's just another cause fascist, son, and that's the worst kind; they always know they're right. Anyone who dissents for whatever reason is evil and an enemy, existing only to be crushed.

Start taking money away from the privileged, and they can turn just as savage as any animal that gets shoved into Philippa's arena.

Don't worry. The chaps train for civil disobedience suppression. We'll crack a few heads, chuck some of the would-be revolutionaries in jail, and the rest will slink off back to their hovels and drink themselves stupid all night. And if worse comes to worst, well, we've got all the guns, haven't we?

The dead hand of society's inertia and the financial interest of the elite minority hold us back as a species. They govern us so they can continue to govern us.