Quotes about Oppression

Never in all history has man had to face such terrible dangers. He is at the point where he is no longer sure of being able to control the situation. The economic, political, and military systems he has established have turned against him and imposed themselves upon him.

Who ain't a slave?

The absolute monopoly of the soil, the gripping and the strangling of the populace by landlords, is a purely Protestant development.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.