Oppression - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

I pound on the glass, screaming my head off. Everyone ignores me except for some Capitol attendant who appears behind me and offers me a beverage. — Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future. — Lawrence Hill The Book of...

The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one...

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the...

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces on the edges of print.

The Islamic Revolution, as it turned out, did more damage to Islam by using it as an instrument of oppression than any alien ever could have done.

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The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

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