Quotes About Oppression

But all we have now is rule by rich people, the ones who keep ninety percent of the world in relative poverty so their unbalanced market can continue paying for a lifestyle of total excess.

There always has to be a balance between freedom and restriction; that is fundamental to any society. Without law there is anarchy. But too much law, applied rigorously, becomes oppression

What is it every authoritarian government says? If you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear.

Hurting them financially weakens them, and reduces their power over the workers they exploit.

Slvasta's revolution destroyed his dictatorship

We exercised our democratic right to protest, and they ignored us.

coercive leaders are Adolf Hitler in Germany, the Taliban leaders in Afghanistan, Jim Jones in Guyana, and North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il, each of whom has used power and restraint to force followers to engage in extreme behaviors.

Only a people trained to accept being ruled by a violent power structure can really question someone's right and need to forcefully defend herself against oppression.

An anarchist is not someone who favors chaos but someone who favors the total liberation of the world through the abolition of capitalism, government, and all other forms of oppressive authority, to be replaced by any number of other social arrangements, proven or utopian.

Teaching the police to be more sensitive to the most exploited and oppressed is only a strategy designed to prevent police heavy-handedness from unintentionally sparking rebellions as they trample people in the performance of their duties.

Any race of people that allows itself to be graded on a scale designed by European science will appear to be a culture of higher primates.

Nazi ideology was thoroughly and unabashedly self-centered.

The general trend in America remains toward pluralism, freedom, and Jefferson's right to "the pursuit of happiness" for each person in his or her own way. We all have a responsibility to see to it that the trend continues; its opposite is the oppression, the stasis, and the homogeneity that Nazism prized.

rights are for the people whom we fear or dislike because they are the people who need them.

The history of China, like the history of any great culture, was written at the expense of other stories that have remained silent.

Humour and comedy have become a virtual monopoly of the cultural Left, because only they would ever seek to politicize humour in a free society. The only good conservative political jokes tend to come from countries under socialist oppression.

Increasingly I'm convinced that in a primitive society someone like me would have been clubbed to death quite early on just for being annoying.

the uprising of the sons of Canaan fueled by a long-standing

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

For twelve years they had been subject to Chedorlaomer, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.

Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt.

“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.