Quotes about Oppression

Appeals to reason and religion do not change the balance of power, because both are used to defend the interests of oppressors.

Living in a world of white oppressors, blacks have no time for a neutral God.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing [a people] to slavery.