Quotes About Oppression

It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.

Bias against the Negro is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers.

For people who had been prohibited from learning to read and write as slaves, reading offered tangible proof that they were really free.

It was necessary for black people to protest against segregation, King argued, to avoid cooperating with an evil system. If one passively accepted injustice, one enabled it to continue.

cause. There will be no more peace in this land until slavery is done for. I will give them something else to do than to extend slave territory.

Though I knew so far as Anarchism was concerned I was backing a lost cause, it didn't seem to matter as every other cause had won at some time but that of the people themselves. At least it threw so a light on any other political persuasion.

Nobody is fit to rule anybody else. It is not alleged that Mankind is perfect, or that merely through his/her natural goodness (or lack of same) he/she should (or should not) be permitted to rule. Rule as such causes abuse. There are no superpeople nor privileged classes who are above 'imperfect Mankind' and are capable or entitled to rule the rest of us. Submission to slavery means surrender of life.

Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.

Every colonial nation carries carries the seeds of a fascist temptation in its bossom. What is fascism if not a regime of oppression for the benefit of a few

For it is not without cause that one needs the police and the army to earn one's living or force and injustice to continue to exist.

Colonial racism is built from three major ideological components: One, the gulf between the culture of the colonialist and the colonized: two, the exploitation of these differences for the benefit of the coloniast; three, the use of these supposed differences as standards of absolute fact.

The ' colonized do not know how to breath', the 'people here do not know how walk; they make little steps which do not get them ahead.

Racism... is the highest expression of the colonial system and one of the most significant features of the colonialist.

Te veo tan hijo de puta como esos nazis que asesinaron a los judíos. Sos un criminal de guerra frustrado. Esta casa es un campo de concentración. Por la cocina corren tus alambradas electrizadas y tus perros. Yo soy la prisionera y vos el SS. Sos un guacho».

As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn

Non pretendo di scoprire l'acqua benedetta calda, ma la religione è una forma di controllo e di oppressione che va bene per le masse. Pertanto, un perfetto Gentiluomo, che è assolutamente democratico e conservatore dove sarebbe inutile non esserlo, sa che le masse si meritano di essere controllate e oppresse: lui no.

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

So long as men worship dictators, Caesars and Napoleons will arise to make them miserable.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles and mysteries. Nor did they posses a really effective system of mind-manipulation. Under a scientific dictator, education will really work with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.

No estoy de acuerdo. Hay que luchar contra todas las injusticias. —¿Querés más injusticia que vos y yo hablando día y noche del suicidio? —Pero nosotras somos intelectuales.

siempre es lo mismo: los que sufren de injusticia dan la sangre por los que sufren de injusticia. Esto me es insoportable.

Un tirano es un lenguaje persistente. Los crímenes y las injusticias parecen razonables cuando se verbalizan