“The police knocked down my door and took everything. They took my underwear!”— Assata Shakur, youtube.com
“Oppression is one of the most frequent tools used by The United States government used to smash anybody that is fighting for real justice.”— Assata Shakur, youtube.com
“I prayed all night long for my master. Till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me. I changed my prayer. First of March I began to pray, 'Oh Lord, if you ain't never going to change that man's heart, kill him, Lord, and take him out of the wa…”— Harriet Tubman, en.wikiquote.org
“I have heard their groans and sighs, and seen their tears, and I would give every drop of blood in my veins to free them.”— Harriet Tubman, harriet-tubman.org
“I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were there. But I was free, and they should be free.”— Harriet Tubman, harriet-tubman.org
“People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democrati…”— Friedrich Engels, en.wikiquote.org
“Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.”— Alan Moore, amazon.com
“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.”— Oprah Winfrey, amazon.com
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”— George Orwell, amazon.com