Quotes about Oppression
When I'm stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
— Frank Herbert
the climax of their journey is a showdown with IT, the cold and calculating disembodied intelligence that has cast a black shadow over the universe in its quest to make everyone behave and believe the same.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You get your freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get it. Then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.
— Malcolm X
The worst thing is that the enslaved secretly dream of enslaving their enslavers. The persecuted yearn to be persecutors. The slaves dream of being masters. As in the book of Esther.
— Amos Oz
The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.
— St. Augustine
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
— Dennis Prager
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.
— Audre Lorde
We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.
— Oscar Romero
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
— Winston Churchill