Quotes About Oppression

The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for "laws.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

We are not shooting enough professors.

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

A riot is the language of the unheard.

Our mistreatment was just not right, and I was tired of it.

For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "wait" has almost always meant "never."

No civilized society can thrive upon victims, whose humanity has been permanently mutilated.

Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.

Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.