Quotes About Oppression

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

In a just cause the weak will beat the strong.

It is always the right of the mighty which prevails over the weak, and that is very primitive.

It's time Pakistani women are able to stand up and hold their oppressors accountable, no matter how strong or influential they are. Don't be scared. They are strong because we are weak - lets change that.

For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.

A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.

The United States encouraged Iraqis to rise up after Saddam Hussein's army was driven out of Kuwait. Washington assumed Saddam was weak after losing the 1991 Gulf War. Iraqis rose up, but Saddam's troops killed thousands - Iraqis say tens of thousands - in a counter-offensive.

I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.

Weak and oppressed nations are fundamentally spiritual; strong nations are, as a rule, chiefly materialistic.

When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side.

Pittsburgh is a very hard city, especially if you're black.

It appears that there is a genocidal plan against Black people.

I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet.

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.

Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform.

My personal cause and platform, if you like, is women's rights and women's issues.

I became aware of how the world is and how the white establishment plays black people against each other.

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

Laughter does not please the mighty.

I know plenty of people in China who don't like what their government does to the Falun Gong, but they don't want to entrust their data to the Falun Gong, either.

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.