Quotes About Oppression

Capitalism is the worst friend of humanity.

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

The humble and meek are thirsting for blood.

Every hour I spent on manual work, every hour I was humiliated in England or degraded has helped me because that's the same way other people feel in the townships here. People are still walking long distances and are working long hours.

Look at the American history of slavery. Can you say that hundreds of years later that has been eased? That pain has not yet been eased.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them.

Nothing is taken lightly in 'The Hunger Games.'

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

Placing oneself in a position where one is thus traversed, broken, fucked by the socius, looking for the right place where, according to the aims and interests assigned to us, one feels something moving that has neither an interest nor a purpose.

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le langage de Sade est paradoxal parce qu'il est essentiellement celui d'une victime. Il n'y a que les victimes qui peuvent décrire les tortures, les bourreaux emploient nécessairement le langage hypocrite de l'ordre et du pouvoir établis

Sometimes guys, they make things hard for us just because they can.

Strangling is the very definition of dominance. Slow-motion murder.

You'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

You know, all through the centuries, pathetic men have abused strong women who threaten their masculinity

What is the difference to you between hate, and a contempt which results in considering people as 'cargo'?

There were, of course, no sanitary napkins, or even newspapers, and the girls used large leaves – burdock leaves if they could find them – to protect themselves. But any blood showing on a dress meant death; it was unaesthetic, and the SS were very keen on aesthetics.)

In Linden Hills they could forget that the world said you spelled black with a capital nothing. Well, they were something and there was everything around them to show it. The world hadn't given them anything but the chance to fail -- and they hadn't failed, because they were in Linden Hills. They had a thousand years and a day to sit right there and forget what it meant to be black, because it meant working yourself to death just to stand still.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life.

There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.

To be categorized is, simply, to be enslaved

Always beware of the fact, that the only thing hindering an all out revolution is your fear of losing the scraps they throw at you.--Twitter post, July 29, 2012