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

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.

All oppression creates a state of war.

Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter how indifferent in itself.

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.