#oppress

When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#britons #brought #europe #fled #formed

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#appreciate #chosen #elephant #foot #injustice

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#continue #dictators #fear #here #i

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. ↗

— Simone Weil

#does #give #inexorable #invincible #oppression

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#oppressed #revolution

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#festival #guide #joy #oppressed #path

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to own property, and denying both the right to vote. ↗

— Gary Steiner

#domestication #injustice #justice #morality #oppression

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#begun #black #establishment #free #goal

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#classification #code #forget #language #legislation

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#always #arms #oppressor #rarely #rebels