Quotes About Oppression

don't believe in the word slave because no one chooses to be owned by someone; an enslaved person is a human being whose freedom has been stolen.

At a certain moment, women in cultures that glamorize their images and suffocate their minds, that set them on pedestals while requiring their silence and modesty, cease to be either silent or modest.

No había dinero en el mundo capaz de pagar sus favores, porque la constante penetración del macho no era solamente a su himen maltratado, sino que iba hasta la pulverización de todo sentimiento humano.

Political is personal; personal is political. I never was a political person until I realized I was a lesbian. I was this oblivious middle-class white kid who didn't understand the powers of oppression or structure or anything. My very existence became politicized for me and that's what enabled me to see all these things. It wasn't just me, it was a whole cultural movement that was also doing those things that I was a part of.

For almost as long as she could remember Maerad had been imprisoned behind walls. She was a slave

Men impinged upon women without thought; another male right in a world of male rights.

We, ironically known as the civilizados - in practically everything that matters they're a damned sight more civilized than we are - bring them so-called progress, which harms them, so-called change, which harms them, so-called civilization, which harms them even more, and desease, which kills them.

One and all, you have proclaimed Pittakos, the lowborn, to be tyrant of your lifeless and doomed land. Moreover, you deafen him with praise.

As a system, patriarchy encourages men to accept male privilege and perpetuate women's oppression, if only through silence.

subordinate groups are often pitted against one another in ways that draw attention away from the system of privilege that hurts them all.

A society is patriarchal to the degree that it promotes male privilege by being male dominated, male identified, and male centered. It is also organized around an obsession with control and involves as one of its key aspects the oppression of women.... If men occupy superior positions, it's a short leap to the idea that men must be superior...[and that] whatever men do will tend to be seen as having greater value.

America free Tom MooneyAmerica save the Spanish LoyalistsAmerica Sacco & Vanzetti must not dieAmerica I am the Scottsboro boys.

A man in chains need not be a slave. If he has pride and self-respect he is a free man though a prisoner, and a constant danger to his jailers. Conversely, a slave who escapes is not a free man, but a runaway slave who may be caught and returned to servitude. A slave is one who accepts the identity ascribed to him by a master: "You are an inferior and unworthy person and so will remain, and therefore must serve me with obedience and humility.

Caroline knew what this really is... It is a fourteen-day celebration of a time when people like them killed people like me. - Princess Ann

Are Shareem slaves?" she asked. Slavery had been outlawed for millennia on Ariel, but she knew that some planetary systems still practiced it. "No," Talan said quickly. "Well," Rio drawled. "We can be if you want.

casi cuarenta años de lucha ininterrumpida, un ejercicio permanente de rabia y de coraje en el contexto de una represión feroz.

No me dejó terminar la frase y así, el último beso de aquella noche me enseñó lo más importante. Que nada, ni los hielos del invierno, ni las borrascas del norte, ni el Patronato de Redención de Penas, ni Franco, ni lo que había hecho con España, ni siquiera ese Dios torpe y tullido que acababa de quedarse manco y ya no tenía fuerzas para apretar, para ahogarme a la vez entre sus dedos, iba a impedir que yo fuera feliz en Cuelgamuros

En España no se podía vivir, pero vivíamos. Los que tenían una oportunidad, se fugaban a Francia o se echaban al monto. Los que habían perdido todas, se suicidaban. Para los que no teníamos la ocasión ni el coraje de escapar, sólo existía una receta, conformidad, paciencia y, sobre todo, resignación

Volvía a preguntarme por qué no nos fusilaban a todos, por qué no nos liquidaban de una vez en lugar de matarnos tan despacio, tantas veces, tantas pequeñas muertes de hambre, de tristeza de humillación

A veces pienso que el mayor delito del franquismo ha sido ése, secuestrar la memoria de un país enterio, desgajarlo del tiempo, impedir que tu, que eres mi nieta, la hija de mi hijo, puedas creer como cierta mi propia historia...

en una dictadura, la expresión estar en libertad no significa lo mismo que ser libre.

Así comprendí que las jaulas no siempre estaban fuera, en las amenazas y los chantajes de las personas que tenían el poder. También podían estar dentro, incrustadas en el cuerpo, en el espíritu de todas las mujeres perdidas que asumían mansamente un destino que no habían elegido, sólo porque otros habían decidido que lo que más les convenía era volverse decentes. Pues

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners of those lies. They cannot face the truth of human equality because it reveals the horror of the injustices they commit.

Me recordaba una procesión fúnebre; estos hombre, mujeres y niños que avanzan con una mirada de muerte y derrota en sus rostros. No podía imaginarme cómo el gueto, ya sobrepoblado, podía darle cabida a una persona más.