Quotes About Oppression

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

This is a racist remark, as if we, the Palestinians, cannot be a part of humanity to share the rest of humanity and the rest of the international community our creativity in the field of fashion.

To deny people of their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents.

At least black people knew when they were slaves; you remain clueless.

America is a bunch o' bullies. Tell me what the Iraq uniform is like. Don't worry, I'll wait.

School shootings were invented by blacks... and stolen by the white man.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

Whatever happens, we have gotThe Maxim gun, and they have not.

Lebanon is the only country where media kills more than bombs, injures more than guns...and at last they say freedom of speech...

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.

You're not allowed to step out of whatever the rules are, politically, or socially, and they'll get you for it, they'll hunt you down. That's the really frightening thing.

witch-hunting misogyny is fiercely recurrent in this nation, even if its forms vary with the ages.

It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.

[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.

Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once were, and numbed our understanding of our current existence.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.

Injustice in the end produces independence.

They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They were the women of early America.

Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.