Quotes About Oppression

Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.

Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African history.

You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.

We fight to exist. Personally, I am not ashamed of fighting to exist. We are doing no very extraordinary thing to fight simply because we do not wish to be enslaved or exterminated.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

What sets black people apart is not some deficit in personal responsibility. It's the weight on our shoulders. That is what's actually different. We have the weight and burden of history.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

The future of history belongs to the poor and exploited.

Nowhere inthe annals of history does the record show a people delivered from bondage bypatience alone.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain that the right will prevail.

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.

I hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.

The consciousness of the past weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.