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“The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself:
Are my trousers long enough?
Is my veil in place?
Can my make-up be seen?
Are they going to whip me?

No longer asks herself:
Where is my freedom of thought?
Where is my freedom of speech?
My life, is it liveable?
What's going on in the political prisons?”
― Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis

“If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?”
― Mary Astell

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail

“They make a desolation and call it peace.”
― Gaius Cornelius Tacitus, C. Cornelii Taciti Germania, Agricola, Et De Oratoribus Dialogus (Classic Reprint)

“Mary’s childhood was rough. She was frequently beaten and chastised by the nuns who served as her protectors and brutalized by the older girls in the orphanage.

Oh how I wept those first few years of my life. My tears came like tropical storms. Every pore in my body wept. I heaved and shuddered and sighed. Everything around me seemed dark and terrifying.”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

“To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.”
― Maximilien de Robespierre

“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and opressions of the body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant �� because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use you to harm others.”
― A Gentlemen

“The collective heartbeat of the oppressed will always be louder than any missile strike, gunshot or bomb.”
― R.Patient

“You forget you have a master here,'' says the tyrant. ''I'll demolish the first who puts me out of temper! I insist on perfect sobriety and silence. Oh, boy! was that you? Frances, darling, pull his hair as you go by; I heard him snap his fingers.''
'Frances pulled his hair heartily;”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word "useful" an absolute meaning; nothing is useful if it is not useful to man; nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

“The service lasted precisely three hours; and yet my brother had the face to exclaim, when he saw us descending,
' ''What, done already?''
'On Sunday evenings we used to be permitted to play, if we did not make much noise; now a mere titter is sufficient to send us into corners!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“les gens n'ont pas une mémoire aussi longue que les institutions, en particulier les institutions répressives.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Une lutte sans trêve

“But you are a paragon of perfection?" Cain tilts his head, appearing genuinely curious. "You live and breath and eat and sleep on the backs of those less fortunate. Your entire existence is due to the oppression of those you view to be lesser. But why you, Blood Shrike? Why did fate see fit to make you the oppressor instead of the oppressed ? What is the meaning of your life?”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Reaper at the Gates

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“You do not know black if you haven’t been shot. Being black is great target practice.”
― Jerm Davitos

“Within the elaborate tableau of illusions weaved by every optimist lies a cynic longing to escape from its cave. This is not a world redeemed, but one saturated with oppression and misery. That is its currency. I feel as if I am Atlas, but instead of carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders, I am crushed beneath its injustice”
― Simon Brass, Lamentations on the Nothingness of Being

“[Frmesk] er først og fremmest en tåre for alle verdens undertrykte piger og børn. Hun er alle vegne: i daginstitutioner, i skoler, på sygehusene, i hjemmene, Hun er symbolet på den undertrykte kvinde, men hun er også den Fugl Føniks, der rejser sig fra asken og støvet.”
― Sara Omar

“You don’t know what heat is until you cross the border from Texas to Louisiana in the summer. You can’t come up with words that catch it. Trees give up. Turtles cook in their shells. Describe that if you know how.”
― Toni Morrison

“Ötszáz, bizony, dalolva ment
Lángsírba velszi bárd:
De egy se birta mondani
Hogy: éljen Eduárd.”
― János Arany, ������������á��

“The wealth that you get it by oppression which it is not in your destiny you will lose it after a short period of time.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“injustice It is the beginning of darkness in life . Forgiveness towards the unjust ، It is betrayal and injustice for the oppressed . We only forgive those who make mistakes ، and there is a huge difference between mistaking and injustice ، Injustice is the darkness that extinguishes the light of truth .”
― Elhachemi Sabi

“The universe is spinning when it stops at your point of happiness don't have two things arrogance and oppression.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, quando alguém arranca um punhado de ervas pela raiz acreditando que dessa forma se livraria dela para sempre, apenas para a mesma erva voltar a nascer no mesmo lugar vinte e cinco anos depois.”
― Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

“Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez que a casa tem muitas janelas, e, portanto, não custaria nada aos vizinhos e seus três filhos me verem transgredindo os limites, mesmo dentro da minha casa, instalei cortinas, muito embora soubesse que, algumas vezes, me esquecerei de fechá-las.”
― Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

“En acceptant notre situation ultraminoritaire, nous ne faisont pas preuve de fatalisme quant à nos possibilités de libération, nous acceptons simplement de ne pas avoir pour finalité de notre émancipation l'assimilation, par une forme ou une autre, à la majorité. Nous ne renonçons pas à l'objectif d'une émancipation totale, seulement nous la savons plus complexe à atteindre.”
― Jacques Boualem, Pédé

“La répression légale a certes disparu dans les pays occidentaux au fil des années mais la respression sociale, elle, persiste.”
― Florent Manelli, Pédés

“من أقبح أنواع الاستبداد استبداد الجهل على العلم واستبداد النفس على العقل.”
― عبدالرحمن الكواكبي

“In a land where the law is the voice of justice, the silence of the oppressed speaks louder than words ever can.”
― Sree Krishna Seelam, PIL : Power, Purpose, and People's Rights: A Common Man’s Guide to filing a Public Interest Litigation in India