#oppress

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#artist #emperor #her #his #oppresses

The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then. ↗

— Curtis Armstrong

#bad #college #college students #did #done

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#artist #express #first #man #men

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#oppression #suppression #truth #courage

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#ever #help #offense #oppressed #other

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#been #born #disobedience #having #i

Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#black #causes #country #itself #must

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition. ↗

— James Hillman

#about #american #american tradition #century #christian

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. ↗

— Henry Clay

#break #fetters #oppressed #people #rise

...and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us; do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?> If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge! The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#equality #jewish-oppression #jews #racism #religion