Laws are chains to the many, and whips to the few.

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren...

A nation will never be vanished by subjugation or oppression, unless they get used to.

Seule l’oppression devrait craindre l’expression complète de la liberté.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

Mental Slavery remains the biggest form of oppression till this day. New insights or ideas is what shines freedom from such an oppression.

The central question is not: what is force and what is freedom? That is a good question, but in the realm of human cruelty – the realm of history – it is utterly abstract. The...

Assist your Muslim brother, whether he be an oppressor or oppressed. “Bu how shall we doit when he is an oppressor?” enquired a companion. Muhammad replied, “Assisting an oppressor by forbidding and witholding him from...

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is...

No one is more vulnerable to fear than a man who keeps another in bondage. He will do anything to prevent justice from rearing its head — for he knows well what he deserves at...

It’s like the frog that tried to outdo the cow…see, the consequences are reflected in each of us as individuals. A people so oppressed by the West have no mental leisure, they can’t do anything...

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Fundamental to a radical and lesbian feminist politics is the understanding that ‘the personal is political’. This phrase has two interrelated meanings. It means that the political power structures of the ‘public’ world are reflected...

Let them shoot us in the head,My blood will grow rootsand will blossom.

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it’s safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made proof against the blaze and guaranteed their stark survival just by their earlier...

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with...

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed.

Don’t be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason for fighting. Because if you believe them they will be...

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

But too often men react to women in positions of power with misogyny, often in sexualized terms. I have heard men in such situations talk about how “I’d like to fuck that bitch and teach...

When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility.

What is amazing and revolutionary today will be oppressive tomorrow.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

Do well to impress; don’t depress, suppress or oppress anyone. Inspire a soul; never despise!

good” bodies. In the process, we torture our bodies, and do everything from engage in disordered eating to invasive surgery to make ourselves okay. Nobody wins in this kind of struggle.

They’ll never build a fence high enough or a wall thick enough to keep freedom out.

When we place ourselves in a position of judgment, then we turn ourselves into oppressors. Healthy self-esteem cannot exist side-by-side with oppression of any kind.

We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone MADE equal. Each man man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no...

Being submissive is not being oppressed.

If you want a definition of what a coward is, it’s needing to push a whole class of people down so that you can walk on top of them.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

I’ve always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she’d be ready to give up on me.

The “norm” for humanity is love.Brutality is an aberration.We are not sinners by nature.We learn to be bad.We are taught to stray from our good paths.We are made to be crazy by other people who...

Era estranho, outrossim, que ele sentisse um árido prazer em seguir até o fim as rígidas linhas da doutrina da Igreja e penetrasse em tétricos silêncios apenas para ouvir e sentir mais profundamente a sua...

The slaves who were ourselves had known terror intimately, confused sunrise with pain, & accepted indifference as kindness.

Now I understand why women want to have children – it’s simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fill the oppressive, unbearable emptiness in your soul.

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this image and replace it with autonomy and responsibility. Freedom is acquired...

BLOODY LIPSThe bloody woundOf the gladiatorGurgles out life’s end.The cries of acclimations from the standsFill the sky with raging tigers.Waving their arms about to incite the massesThe aging notables add an air of dignity to...

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge,fitter to bruise than polish.”[Meditations Divine and Moral]

Resherphire: True freedom is not that which is granted by an oppressor. It is a self-evident right, not something that originates from an external force.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

«Couldn’t never be nothin’ but a nigger, if I was ever so good,» said Topsy. «If I could be skinned, and come white, I’d try then.»

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to...

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

The act of claiming an identity can be transformational. It can provide healing and empowerment. It can weld solidarity within a community. And, perhaps most importantly, it can diminish power from an oppressor, a dominant...

But they can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools they need to finish the job of killing off the Constitution.”What sort of tools?”More stringent security measures. Universal electronic surveillance....