Quotes about Oppression

It was then that I understood that the days of Colonel Garcia and all those like him are numbered, because they have not been able to destroy the spirit of these women.

The Indians' insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other explanation which is why the friars went out to hunt down and lasso the deserters and then whipped their doctrine of love and forgiveness into them.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them," wrote Margaret Atwood.

'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.

I saw what happened when a dictator was allowed to take over a piece of a country and the country went down the tubes. And I saw the opposite during the war when America joined the fight.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

If we'd lived in England or America we'd have told stories abut our lives and nobody would have called it protest theatre. But the reality of South Africa was the arrests and detentions and oppression - we could not escape that, so we decided to take it on.