Oppression Quotes

Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.

Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge with them

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

With respect to teachers’ salaries …. Poor teachers are grossly overpaid and good teachers grossly underpaid. Salary schedules tend to be uniform and determined far more by seniority.

Every door of racial prejudice I can kick down, is one less door that my children have to kick down.

I’m really disturbed about the gay marriage thing. Because I think gay people should get married, cause it’s their own business. Because as a Black man, I think you’ve got to be against any form of discrimination.

Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors

A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.

What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?