Quotes About Oppression

There was a law against Luke.

Men cannot stand a woman who writes. That's a cruel thing for men. It's hard for all of them.

Outre qu'il est fatigant d'écouter debout dans la foule un long morceau d'éloquence, entendre tonner contre les ennemis du régime n'est pas un pur plaisir quand on tient soi-même de plus près qu'on ne voudrait aux suspects et aux condamnés.

Non si è forse osservato abbastanza che il problema della libertà sensuale in tutte le sue forme è in gran parte un problema di libertà di espressione. Appare evidente come, di generazione in generazione, le tendenze e gli atti differiscono ben poco; ciò che invece cambia è l'estensione della zona di silenzio che li circonda o lo spessore degli strati di menzogna che li comprimono.

Più la vedeva innocente e la sapeva addolorata più s'impegnava a disprezzarla come fanno i prepotenti per salvarsi interi dal fatto d'aver torto.

We are afraid to allow ourselves to blossom fully because of the general disapproval that fills our air whenever a 'little lady' forgets her place.

ancient thought forms of oppression and domination have reappeared among us. And we, like generations before us, are called upon to respond.

ancient thought forms of oppression and domination have reappeared among us.

Esa es la sociedad; una reunión de víctimas y de verdugos. ¡Dichoso aquel que no es verdugo y víctima a un tiempo! ¡Pícaros, necios, inocentes! ¡Más dichoso aún, si hay excepciones, el que puede ser excepción!

In Harlem the government pushes heroin to keep the blacks down and doctors by the thousands give barbiturates and tranquilizers to all the housewives: keep the natives quiet. when the drugs don't work anymore, they put the blacks in jail and us in here. Don't make noise. I read a poem once, it had a line, something like 'You keep stiller when every time you move something jangles'.

In Russia they put you in insane asylums if you disagree with the state: it's not so different here. Keep the natives quiet.

They saw women in the public sphere as whores, thieves, she-men with the audacity to carry guns and wear pants.

Charlotte Bunch writes that if one ethnic national group were attacking another, killing and maiming them at the same rate as men attack and kill women (and she is speaking only of attacks by intimates), the situation would be held to constitute a state of emergency or even war. But domestic violence is only one campaign in what amounts to a widespread war against women.

I thought he made one interesting point in here somewhere, though. He said the seriousness of American Christianity was called into question by our treatment of the Negro. It seems to me there is something to be said for that idea.

Americans' treatment of the Negro indicated a lack of religious seriousness.

Power wears out those who do not have it.

In this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.

As bread is sweet to us," he said, "so is the blood of the poor to the rich who drink it." It

It pleased him to see the hurt look on her face, the tears springing into her eyes. She might be a daughter of the Great Don but she was his wife, she was his property now and he could treat her as he pleased. It made him feel powerful that one of the Corleones was his doormat.

Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil.

La eliminación física de la Bestia es bien vista por Dios si con ella se libera a un pueblo.

La sua cecità intellettuale non gli permetteva di capire che questi fratelli, con istinto sicuro, hanno orientato la loro rivolta verso il nemico primo della libertà: il potere. E qual è il potere che li opprime, che nega loro il diritto alla terra, alla cultura, all'uguaglianza? Non è forse la Repubblica? E se sono armati per combatterla ciò significa che hanno indovinato anche il metodo, l'unico che posseggono gli sfruttati per spezzare le loro catene: la forza.

And what do I do?" replied Turk. "What do thirty or forty percent of Dominicans do? Aren't we all working for the government or its businesses? Only the very rich can allow themselves the luxury of not working for Trujillo.

There were so many problems; the hydra had so many heads, iniquity raised its head everywhere one looked.