Quotes about Oppression

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.

The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing

The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.

I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute -- a white skin.

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

Though my enemies and all the world oppress me, persecute me, and drive me out, I still have a Lord who is, and wants to be, my Lord because God has promised this to me.

On the other hand, in the presence of tyrants and obstinate opposers, use your liberty in their despite, and with the utmost pertinacity, that they too may understand that they are tyrants, and their laws useless for justification, nay that they had no right to establish such laws.

But if you command me to believe or to get rid of certain books, I will not obey; for there you are a tyrant and overreach yourself...