654 Quotes About Oppression

OppressionNow dreamsAre not availableTo the dreamers,Nor songsTo the singers.In some landsDark nightAnd cold steelPrevail--But the dreamWill come back,And the songBreakIts jail.

An individual excels where the institution fails.

Perhaps Bug and Tony should have been allies. But any successful structure of domination always gets the weak to reject each other.

Hennes självbedrägeri ljög fram en vrångbild, som i mycket liknade lyckan.

A hunger to be small as a scrap of light, warmingstrangers without being seen, to be lost in the crack between cobblestones, in the sliver of space between lovemaking bodies, to be nothing more concrete than the exhalation of dust from a book. The urge to be obliterated and yet held on the surface of the skin: this is the paradox of the oppressed.

They had learned that opposing a thing merely feeds it and strengthens it, giving it a reason to continue itself.

Do not oppress foreigners nor the fatherless.

It's time we stop celebrating October 11 as Columbus Day and consider it as "Repentance Day", to acknowledge, and make amends for, the appalling atrocities committed by mindless and heartless oppressors like Columbus.

Liberation under oppression is unthinkable by design