Quotes about Oppression

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.

We haven't got those dreams: 'I wish to become doctor or a lawyer.' Black people in South Africa have been barred in doing anything that would articulate their cause.

if they put an iron circle around your neck I will bite it away

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem. And white people have a very, very serious problem.

Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was [...] School teacher changed me. I was something else and that something else was less than a chicken sitting in the sun on a tub. (Paul D.)