Oppression Quotes

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." "It is certain, in any case, that ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy justice can have" "Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me." "I grew up in a segregated America; I know what it feels like to be held down." "There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere" "There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile for us to continue talking peace and non-violence against a government whose reply is only savage attacks on an unarmed and defenseless people" "The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself." "When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right" "There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard." "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor" "Big Brother is watching you." "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever." "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." "The oppressed must be their own example in the struggle for their redemption" "All oppression creates a state of war" "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought" "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress" "To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them" "For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees" "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion"