Quotes About Oppression

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.

You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

History is the study of the world's crime

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

The history of the United States is a history of settler colonialism.

I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.

In prison we are their jailers On trial their judges Persecuted their punishers Dead their conquerors

The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

The beads around my neck [at Olympics in 1968] indicated that there were so many Blacks throughout the history of this country that have been maimed and killed by way of hangings.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.

Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

There's a long history of saying certain people shouldn't be voting. And, unfortunately, the people who are often left out of these conversations are people who are black and brown.

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.

History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.

Racism and prejudice exist there [at the National Film Board] like anywhere else. My history at the Board has not been easy. It's been a long walk.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.