Oppression Quotes

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can...

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usuall...

If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many mira...

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of...

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the opp...

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the sp...

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.Freeman and slave, pa...

When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been ...

OppressionNow dreamsAre not availableTo the dreamers,Nor songsTo the singers.In some landsDark night...

Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit ...

[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of...

White people covered the earth like lice.

If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do no...

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to man...

Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power...

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the ...

And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim...

I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppres...

... the reigns of the kings and queens who are portrayed as kneeling with clasped hands in the windo...

[T]he mothers who had sold their children felt empty and sad. They felt as if this act, done freely ...

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces on the edges of pr...

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fea...

In asking me to contribute a mite to the memorial to Gutenberg you give me pleasure and do me honor....

In Warsaw, you also remember that you are in a Communist-controlled country, though by all accounts ...

There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression.

I suggested then that the prize was not given merely as recognition of past achievement, but also as...

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the su...

I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put...

Do you want to make it impossible for anyone to oppress his fellow-man? Then make sure that no one s...

Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empire...

Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressiv...

We aren't human.""Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-som...

But for a society build on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppre...

...people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities t...

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an ou...

Often we blame a region's religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, th...

To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you...

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted in...

It’s not enough to be oppressed, you must also be in the right. Most oppressed people are in the wro...

Let me tell you about gods," said Wiggin. "No matter how smart or strong you are, there's always som...

Millions of couples out there practiced the art of sadomasochism every day, without even realizing i...

P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them. P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling o...

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to begin to question: Why?

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearfu...

No oppressive order could permit the oppressed to being to question: Why?

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unj...

To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to ...

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that...

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the peo...

As long as I fight, I am moved by hope; and if I fight with hope, then I can wait.

P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus...

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders.

P15 - Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us i...

If we have learned anything from the liberation movements, we should have learned how difficult it i...

Don't be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality wo...

The greatest power one human being can exert over others is to control their perceptions of reality,...

On Lou's lips a trace of pinot and out of them poured tales of acts of viciousness worthy of the gre...

We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone MADE ...

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's ...

We cannot shake off three hundred years of fear in three hours.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may ...

But they can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools they need to finish ...

If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I gue...

Being on the fringes of the world is not the best place for someone who intends to re-create it: her...

All oppression creates a state of war.

We have to respect freedom only when it is intended for freedom, not when it strays, flees itself, a...

Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants...

Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.

We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but w...

...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a differen...

O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, butthe tyrant, stand forth! Every...

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Ex...

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue...

Men often have grievances against prominent and powerful persons. Historically, the grievances of th...

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. ...

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but has...

Those who are truly alive are kindly and unsuspecting in their human relationships and consequently ...

It is high time for the living to get tough, for toughness is indispensable in the struggle to safeg...

But in Ward 9 the air had a real quality, it clamped itself over your face like a pad of cotton wool...

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight ...

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - ...

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that w...

Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small...

The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over ...

Take terrorism, one example among the methods used in that struggle. We know that leftist tradition ...

Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued viole...

It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing...

Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no mor...

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the ce...

When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must no...

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so t...

A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, t...

The central question is not: what is force and what is freedom? That is a good question, but in the ...

Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who lov...

In both cases, it is the prejudice, not the condition, that does the harm. It may be, as some would ...

All my contemporaries—hundred-and-fivers or convicts—will tell you how we livedin barely sentient fe...

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.