Quotes About Oppression

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Laila lay there and listened, wishing Mammy would notice that she, Laila, hadn't become shaheed, that she was alive, here, in bed with her, that she had hopes and a future. But Laila knew that her future was no match for her brothers' past. They had overshadowed her in life. They would obliterate her in death. Mammy was now the curator of their lives' museum and she, Laila, a mere visitor. A receptacle for their myths. The parchment on which Mammy meant to ink their legends

Mariam SEPTEMBER 1997

Most of our neighbors in Fremont were bus drivers, policemen, gas station attendants, and unwed mothers collecting welfare, exactly the sort of blue-collar people who would soon suffocate under the pillow Reganomics pressed to their faces.

Each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. All the sighs drifted up in the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how women suffer.

Bahwa Hassan akan menjadi seorang buta huruf seperti Ali dan sebagian besar orang Hazara sudah diputuskan pada menit saat dia dilahirkan, mungkin bahkan saat dia masih meringkuk dalam rahim Sanaubar yang tidak menginginkannya. Lagi pula apa gunanya seorang pelayan belajar menulis dan membaca?

women who were killing themselves out of fear of being raped, and of men who, in the name of honor, would kill their wives or daughters if they'd been raped by the militia. Aziza

Freedom is for the educated people who fought for it. We were slaves of the English, now we will be slaves of the educated Indians—or the Pakistanis.

and I stare and think of the men inside preparing to fight and the women outside who always had to.

According to the religious, idealist view, which regards man as a purely spiritual being, man is a product of a certain supernatural, mysterious being and his destiny is also decided by the latter. By means of their religious, idealist view of man, the reactionary ruling class and its spokesmen preached that the miserable lot of the working masses who suffered exploitation and oppression was their unavoidable fate and therefore, they had to submit to their predestined lot.

Freedom in an injust system is no freedom at all.

She recalled hearing how after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, they had built prison camps faster than medical facilities. They had expected riots and so had put people of color in jail preemptively. But that was back in the twentieth century, in the dark ages, the age of fascisms both home and abroad. Since

It felt as if they were confined to the interior of a hotel with no exits, without even any balconies. The oppression of hotel life was growing; they had been inside now for four long months, but it was still less than half their trip.

indeed these men had the dangerous look that Frank associated with machismo, the look of men who oppressed their women so cruelly that naturally the women struck back where they could, terrorizing sons who then terrorized wives who terrorized sons and so on and so on, in an endless death spiral of twisted love and sex hatred. So that in that sense they were all madmen.

At this point justice and revenge are the same thing! Justice for people would be revenge on the oligarchs.

colonialism had never died, he used to declare, it just changed names and hired local cops.

In it {a film Peter saw} a sadistic sergeant broke the spirit of soldier in a military prison by beating him up at systematically random intervals, from more than a day down to a quarter of an hour, so that the victim never knew when the next attack was coming, never felt safe. Life with Muriel, it seemed to Peter, had over the last seven or eight years turned into a decreasingly bearable version of that.

When you deal with naked power from an inferior position, perspectives get distorted. He was the aggrieved party and yet he felt guilty and would continue to do so all his life.

When you deal with naked power from an inferior position, perspectives get distorted.

It did not cross the minds of most Hindus that barring exceptions, they were responsible for Catholicism in India. The outcastes of Hinduism, the untouchables, who fell beyond the pale of the caste system had ample reason to convert to Catholicism. The caste-Hindus, as a matter of fact, left them no choice. As sub-humans they were little better than slaves.

It looks very much, as if these men are likely to assign a penis to a certain type of woman (the proletarian whore) whose penis they fear as an instrument of castration. The men experience Communism as a direct assault on their genitals!

What good is it to be rich if we canna scrape up the scratch to buy a political prisoner on a whim?

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak have to be strong enough to leave.

Det behöver knappast sägas att Marx tanke med en grundläggande indelning i två klasser utelämnade ett stort antal människor. ... Marx föddes i en tysk-judisk medelklassfamilj i Preussen. ... Var passade Marx själv in?