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Oppression Quotes

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy"

"The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed"

"I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen "

"Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think."

"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the definitions of the white world."

"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore"

"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher"

"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere"

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral"

"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny"

"The mind-forg’d manacles I hear"

"When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon"

"No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved"

"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

"Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot."

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