Quotes About Oppression

To be on the other side of the law-and-order machine in this country is awful. It is dehumanizing and degrading and deforming. It fills you with a helpless rage because, once there, you can only make things worse for yourself by speaking up.

You have a plantation where you have 10 white people and you have about 50 or 60 black people. The automatic thought was, 'Why didn't they raise up? Why didn't they overpower? They had the numbers.' But really these people, their hope was broken. Their sense of love was broken. Their appreciation for who they were was broken.

When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else.

I have left my home, my family, and my job, and I am raising my voice. To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison. I can speak when so many cannot.

I admire identity politics for raising the fact that there are terrible and constant microaggressions against all minorities.

My parents realized the dangers of raising a daughter in a social, political, and legal climate that was growing increasingly oppressive toward women and girls. Although they fled to London when I was just three weeks old, the challenges facing women's rights in Iran became ingrained in my social consciousness.

The persecution of Christians isn't isolated. Instead, it's rampant and expanding around the world.

Women have to be extremely careful about choosing something that they consider an act of defiance that can really be used to further their enslavement.

The only way to gain the kinds of often-generational wealth that the 1% has been able to gain is through controlling the populations it relied on to make its wealth.

I gauge if I can create a different a woman. But sometimes, you feel the character isn't given enough space to perform.

It's better to be a dictator than gay.

It's hard being gay in Edwardian times.

I don't think bullying is gender or age-related or dependent on what section of society you are coming from.

Sexism is where there is discrimination clearly based on gender.

We must make sure #MeToo breaks the race, class, gender, and faith lines that make it so hard for marginalized people to be heard.

Gender discrimination is not the only form of discrimination one has to deal with.

Why are we only talking about gender discrimination. We need to focus on the other kinds of discriminations in practice.

We'll always be re-examining how we relate to each other in terms of race and gender, in terms of power and access.

Some women are forced by men to look a certain way to be accepted by the general public, and I find that terrible.

Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule.

Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.

My dad was a freedom fighter in Denmark against the occupational forces - the S.S. and the Gestapo and all that.

Can we imagine anything much more viciously sadistic than the Black Ghetto mother?

Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.