Irish Proverb Quotes

One of the very basic ideas of Post-Modernism is rejection of arbitrary power structures. Different people are sensitive to different kinds of power structures.

Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed-upon myth of its conquerors.

History is written by the winners. My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout.

The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.

If we accept the rule of those who think they are the bosses and lords of Mexico, nothing will change for the people on the bottom.

Justice often means taking power from some who have it and giving it to some who do not.

It is not right that a servile race should inhabit the same locality which their ancestors inhabited in power and glory.

Whenever there are enclosing walls, there are abuses behind them.

One of the most constant laws of history is … immediately [if] any one class becomes preponderant—nobles, clergy, army, or the people—it speedily tends to enslave others.

The lessons of history are taught by the victors.

Not a single one, not a single one among us [French Canadians], in 200 years, has won a battle... and this is what it is to be colonized! When we have but martyrs! How can we have aspirations!? How can we have the will to fight!?

We have a tendency in life to be afraid of our oppressors.

History is written by the rich so the poor get blamed for everything.

There is a great fear of our Union -- a fear that I do not fully understand, but that I know is present...What is it that causes some men to act so hastily and so cruelly? It cannot be that we are so powerful. Is it so much to ask that the poorest people of the land have a measure of justice?

Only when the oppressed are heard can we have an honest solutions based dialogue.

In every revolution, there are winners and losers. Every dystopia is a utopia for somebody else. It just depends where you are. Are you in the class that benefits, or are you in the class that's not?

Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter.

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their nature (i.e., oppressed) forever in ferment and agitation against their condition and what they understand to be their oppressors. If not by overt rebellion or revolution, then in the thousand and one ways they will devise with and without consciousness to alter their condition

If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.