Quotes About Oppression

If you were born female, you were born on a battlefield. You will be punished for even saying that out loud, but the grim truth is you are going to be punished no matter what for the sin of being female.

Growing up under patriarchy is a grooming process that leaves girls and women extremely vulnerable to male manipulation.

Such was the cost of dealing with the Romans: even when one fought against them, the stain of their violence licked and crackled at the soul like a fire about to engulf an entire forest.

Do you know what emperors do, Tilla?' That was easy. 'Send soldiers to steal the land and make us pay taxes.

rasialisme telah mengaburkan kesamaan itu dan menumpulkan contohnya, sehingga bukan hanya mengalihkan perhatian dari struktur dasar ekonomi Afrika Selatan, melainkan juga menyembunyikan intensitas eksploitasi dan laju akumulasi kekayaan secara berlebihan yang memedulikan kesejahteraan manusia

Repression begat violence. Violence and terror begat more repression.

Wars, and hence the memories of wars, are owned by the male species. And facism is a decidely male property, whether you were for or against it. Besides, women have no past, or aren't supposed to have one. A man can have an interesting past, a woman only indecent.

Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary, deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you how to live normally.

Freedom of expression: It's an obstruction of justice when one is not able and allowed to express himself justly, he becomes a prisoner.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.

All dictators, irrespective of epoch or country, have one common trait: they know everything, are experts on everything. The thoughts of Qadaffi and Ceau?escu, Idi Amin and Alfredo Stroessner—there is no end to the profundities and wisdom. Stalin was expert on history, economics, poetry, and linguistics. As it turned out, he was also expert on architecture.

in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?

The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries -- slave of prejudice … slave of religious fanaticism … slave of barbarity and inhumanity.

When we were enslaved, we could imagine freedom, but now that we are free, how will we imagine subjection?

Bilhassa tahammül edemedi?im bir ?ey, kad?n?n erkek kar??s?nda her zaman pasif kalmaya mecbur olu?u... Neden? Niçin daima biz kaçaca??z ve siz kovalayacaks?n?z? Niçin daima biz teslim olaca??z ve siz teslim alacaks?n?z? Niçin sizin yalvar??lar?n?zda bile bir tahakküm, bizim reddedi?lerimizde bile bir âciz bulunacak?

Why are we always the ones running away and you are the ones chasing after us? Why is it always that we surrender and you take the spoils? Why is it that even in the way you beg, there is dominance, and pity in the way we refuse?

God is always on the side of the persecuted,

Is it not happening here as it happened in Russia? Lenin strongly defended the persecuted sects, until he came to power. Then tens of thousands of them died in concentration camps. First the church is lulled into acceptance. Then the blow falls.

To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle.

A man with a rifle or a club can only be stopped by a person who defends himself with a rifle or a club. That's equality. If the United States government doesn't want you and me to have rifles, then take the rifles away from those racists. If they don't want you and me to use clubs, take the clubs away from the racists. If they don't want you and me to get violent, then stop the racists from being violent. Don't teach us non-violence!!!

I think that an objective reader may see how in the society to which I was exposed as a black youth here in America, for me to wind up in a prison was really just about inevitable. It happens to so many thousands of black youth.

Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight. I