Quotes About Oppression

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim Crowers out of their high places, every living last one of them from Washington to Texas.

The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink.

Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its hopes upon Heaven, it has everything to hope for from this earth.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

If there is hope, it lies in the proles.

There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.

A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

Capitalism is the worst enemy of humanity.

Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.

I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

Freedom was given to humanity by God. But, governments, if they can help it, never give freedom. They just hand out slavery with slogans.

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Harton thought that if one squeezed humanity through a wine press, its essence would flow out as drops of policemen.