Quotes About Oppression

punta del zapato una de estas minas recién colocadas. «Intolerante», «homófobo», «sexista», «misógino», «racista» y «tránsfobo» no son más que el principio. Las luchas por los derechos de nuestra época giran en torno a estos

In one way Timothy had gone all the way around the oppression cycle. From woman, to trans, to white man and therefore to the personification of the white patriarchy. From minority to oppressor. Where female to male transitioners can create one pile-up, male to female transitioners produce another of their own – most obviously with people who have been born as women.

Como sabe cualquiera que haya vivido bajo un régimen totalitario, hay algo humillante y hasta autodestructivo en tener que marchar al son de consignas que uno no cree ni puede creer.

Victimhood rather than stoicism or heroism has become something eagerly publicized, even sought after, in our culture. To be a victim is in some way to have won, or at least to have got a head start in the great oppression race of life.

Until one corporation is left standing, and the impoverished revolt.

Only five percent of the people need to be organized in this fashion to install a fascist dictator in the United States. That is the ultimate objective of the greatest covert operation ever, the one in which the oligarchs steal everything you own.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Nothing can emancipate the outcaste except the destruction of the caste system.

There are no tyrants where there are no slaves. (El Filibusterismo)

The tyranny of some is possible only through the cowardice of others.

And today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he, Is king of the Mud. That is all he can see. And the turtles of course... all the turtles are free As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.

A knowledge of reading, writing, and the elements of arithmetic, is convenient and important to the free laborer, who is the transactor of his own affairs, and the guardian of his own interests—but of what use would they be to the slave?

Females are human and rational beings. They may be found of better faculties and better qualified to exercise political privileges and to attain the distinctions of society than many men; yet who complains of the order of society by which they are excluded from them?

An intelligent English traveller has characterized as the most miserable and degraded of all beings, "a masterless slave." And is not the condition of the laboring poor of other countries too often that of masterless slaves?

But colonization had a nasty tendency to work its way into the DNA, the beliefs and philosophies and the very ways of life of the people being colonized.

La mayoría de las sociedades imponen a sus ciudadanos un concepto de la sexualidad buena, o normal, como forma de vida obligada, negándoles así la libertad de personalizar quiénes son sexualmente.

Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

What is life without liberty; and what is liberty without equality of rights?

I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.

People say, 'Are you afraid? Are you scared for your life?' and I tell them: If I choose today to tone it down, if I choose today to shut up, tomorrow me, you, and all of us will be forced to.

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

I've been in rage all my life at this thing we call 'society'