Quotes About Oppression

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur.

All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

What would people say if I had only asked to ban Muslim clothing? They would burn me as a Muslim hater.

The cost of Colonel Gaddafi's rule on Libyan society is incalculable.

I'll tell you what colonial experience is.

My big entrance into this industry was playing an enslaved person, which is an absolute clich of people of color.

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

No matter that you're a British citizen, no matter that you were born here - your skin colour means you do not have the same rights as others to express critical opinions about your own country.

I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste.

The apartheid people were actors, and they had to act out their part in their beliefs every day. That's why we always saw them as being comedic.

There's a history of enslaved African-Americans having to make their slave masters comfortable. This business of what we call skinning and grinning - that is something African-Americans are very much cognizant of.

I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.

I lived under the Nazis and under the Communists.

You got to remember that slavery's very complex. It has a lot of levels to it.

Women in the post-Fifties world were appendages. They existed to serve men. Their lives and concerns didn't matter, except insofar as they impinged on Important Male Things.

The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.

I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.

I can't be in an environment that is not conducive to me as a black woman.

As government imposes the will of a few upon the many, the many begin to resist. Ultimately, it becomes necessary for the government to use force to make the people conform.

What we know to be true is that comfort isn't always freedom. People confuse the two.

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

The government harasses everything. The government must keep a constant surveillance of all activities by black people in order to maintain their reign over them, especially when they are in a minority.