Quotes About Oppression

Drug reformers need to be hyper-vigilant. I understand that when you've been oppressed so long, so thirsty for truth, that when someone comes along and gives you a sip of water, you think that they're the savior. But in that water there may be cyanide.

Some places you play in America, it's like 'On the Waterfront.'

My mom is a nurse; my dad is a pediatrician. They were born in the 1940s, and they were both inspired to fight against injustice, whether it was the injustices of the Vietnam War or Watergate or children in poverty or oppression of African Americans in Philadelphia where I was growing up.

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed moments, would have fundamentally done away with the racist structures that have long oppressed black people. However, we know that has been far from the case.

I feel like so much of mainstream feminism springs from the second wave, which was essentially a discourse spearheaded by white, cisgender, upper middle class women. I feel - especially as I'm trying to negotiate this new female space with the feminism that's available to me - there are a lot of places where I'm disenfranchised.

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.

The thing with mutants is, they've always stood in for the disenfranchised and downtrodden. And no matter how hard they fight, how hard they work to live among humans, the humans always push back with new laws and new ways of hurting mutants.

In many ways the Palestinians are the new Indians, the Indians of Israel.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

We cannot forget that we are a nation founded by refugees who were fleeing oppression and often fearful for their lives.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world.

We cannot expect loyalty to an unjust regime.

The problem with Muslim women is less that we cannot speak the language, but that no one listens to us.

If we support human rights, we cannot ignore legalized brutality against any group of our global community.

Bullying is the result of an unequal power dynamic - the strong attacking the weak.

Religion is a means of exploitation employed by the strong against the weak; religion is a cloak of ambition, injustice and vice.

Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.

If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.

If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak.