654 Quotes About Oppression

Your people, your guards – they’re nothing more than killers, rapists, and thieves. The only difference between them and criminals is the uniforms they wear.

The same patriarchy that oppresses women oppresses nonhuman animals. Farmed animals and “housewives,” “lab” animals and prostitutes, dancing bears and girls in the sex trade—all have too long been exploited by the same patriarchal hierarchy wherein the comparatively weak are exploited for the benefit of the powerful.

If you want to know who rules over you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

When we were enslaved, we could imagine freedom, but now that we are free, how will we imagine subjection?

Lightness and weightiness are both linked to a philosophy of life. They are choices in life. Heaviness can be the embodiment of a sense of responsibility, the expression of maturity, the result of profound meditation or the emanation of a search for meaning in life. Weightiness, however, may also lead to a feeling of oppression, when it is felt as a burden, an unbearable burden. Then time has come to let loose and things can finally lose their gravity. ( "The unbearable heaviness of being" )

THE COUNTRY WITH A POST OFFICE NOW.Dear Agha Shahid ,I am on my way towards the post office to send you a letter, I have written for you, but the barrel of gun is to my head. I am moments away from either posting you this letter or meeting you there in person to tell you that your country has a post office now, but what your country lacks is the people writing or reading those letters.

It's painful fighting for freedom. Freedom has demands. To begin, we must admit we're slaves.

Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are non-coercive knowledge produced in the interest of human freedom

The big guys in suits give guise to their own agendas as they see suit. It's falsehood and fictitious. My people suffer and their suffering is due to their lack of knowledge, their lack of faith & their lack of communion with Yahweh. Their burdens are incontrovertible to the controversies of what's really going on within the societies of society with all its secrecy. Understand, Yahweh is the only God that opens the eyes of the blind to see.