Quotes About Oppression

When National Socialism has ruled long enough, it will no longer be possible to conceive of a form of life different from ours. In the long run, National Socialism and religion will no longer be able to exist together.

Toplum ancak kuvvetli ÅŸeyler kar??s?nda eÄŸilebilir. Nas?l kad?nlar zay?flara bask? yapt??? halde, kuvvetli olan?n kar??s?nda diz çökerlerse; topluluk da otoriteyi, zay?fa tercih eder.

T]he Jew will surely raise a tremendous cry in his newspapers, if a hand is laid on his favorite nest, if a move is made to end this press mischief, and if this tool of education is brought under state control and no longer left in the hands of aliens and enemies of the people... A 30-cm shell hisses louder than a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers--so let them hiss!

Mientras el trato asocial e indigno dado al hombre provoque resistencias, y mientras no se hayan instituido autoridades judiciales encargadas de reparar los daños, siempre él más fuerte vencerá en la lucha. Por

If you will not be a comrade too, it means a broken skull for you".

Esasen devletin otoritesi bir gaye olamaz. Çünkü devlet otoritesi bir gaye kabul edilirse, istibdad? kutsal saymak gerekir.

Con orgogliosa meraviglia commisuravo lo sviluppo del Reich al marciume dello Stato: mi indignava che in uno Stato il più idiota dei cittadini ha il diritto alla parola

To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.

As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. And the fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect, keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, and leads us to settle for...many facets of our own oppression.

When I try to speak my throat is cut and, it seems, by his hand The sounds I make are prehuman, radical the telephone is always ripped-out and he sleeps on Yet always the tissue grows over, white as silk hardly a blemish maybe a hieroglyph for scream Child, no wonder you never wholly trusted your keepers

The body has been made so problematic for women that it has often seemed easier to shrug it off and travel as a disembodied spirit.

This is the oppressor's language yet I need it to talk to you.

The mother I needed to call my mother was silenced before I was born.

Reading and writing aren't sacred yet people have been killed as if they were

You were a woman walked on a leash. And they dropped you in the end.