Quotes About Oppression

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

For most of the history of the American empire, government has been a tool for preserving and furthering the power and might of white male corporate elites.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.

Whites have been the most subsidized group in the history of the United States and maybe the history of the world, while Blacks were enslaved and were the assets of Whites.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin.

Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

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

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. I am seventeen years old. My home is District 12. I was in the Hunger Games. I escaped. The Capitol hates me.

Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners homes, but instruments of terror.

Thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold; Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear.

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

The fraudulent electrical utility company in conjunction with the corrupt sheriff taught me that an Englishman's home is not his castle

In antiquity slaves were, in all honesty called slaves. In the middle ages, they took the name of serfs. Nowadays they are called wage earners.

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie... But rather mourn the apathetic throng - The cowed and the meek - Who see the world's great anguish and its wrong And dare not speak!

American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.

I shall be honored to go to jail. Under a dictatorship, the detention cell is a place of honor.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.