What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?
- Howl
Tags: capitalism oppression
When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.
Nelson MandelaTags: freedom oppression crime
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl MarxTags: politics society oppression repression duopoly representation
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Booker T. WashingtonTags: oppression slavery
Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: choice oppression freedom-of-choice manipulation control autonomy abuse-of-authority abuse-of-power puppet
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.
James MadisonTags: oppression privacy
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert F. KennedyTags: kindness justice oppression influence make-a-difference incrementalism
We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.
Lydia Maria Francis ChildTags: injustice oppression imperialism racism sexism rationalization classism
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.
Carl SaganTags: power history society capitalism oppression corruption government rationalization aristocracy
The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.
Fidel CastroTags: wealth war weapons ignorance oppression poverty illness hunger weapons-of-mass-destruction
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