Oppression Quotes

"When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand." "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man" "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." "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"