Quotes about Oppression

Its racist policies, for instance, were firmly rooted in the pre-Gilead period, and racist fears provided some of the emotional fuel that allowed the Gilead takeover to succeed as well as it did.

The thing to remember is that there is nothing new about the society depicted in The Handmaid's Tale except the time and place. All of the things I have written about have been done before, more than once.

They were reducing us to animals—to penned-up animals—to our animal nature. They were rubbing our noses in that nature. We were to consider ourselves subhuman.

This white man who is saying "it takes time." For three hundred and more years they have had "time," and now it is time for them to listen.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.

This is because having to obey one concept of right is inherently unjust. God has given each of us a unique sense of right, so when we are forced to live under someone else's for years and years, we run the risk of losing our own. But not everyone can be crushed. Sooner or later the longing for freedom is bound to assert itself.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.

We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator.

I will be happy to give my life to see some of these white devils die.