Quotes About Oppression

Certainly it's admirable for any given woman to learn to appreciate her own worth, despite all the countervailing forces. But it cannot be enough for those who are treated as lesser to feel better about themselves. That they are treated as lesser is an injustice. And that injustice itself must be rooted out and eradicated.

Underneath every detail of her life was a history of oppression. And yet she'd emerged not only with her spirit intact, but with a capacity for joy that he had only begun to understand. That he would now never truly know.

I'm always one sentence away from bringing up democracy, religious freedom, the rights of minorities, all of these in danger.

Into the cities my people had gathered. They had become dizzy with words. Words had choked them. They could not breathe.

Just as twenty-first century masters of the universe exploit workers, lobby for tax loopholes, and devise or reap profits from predatory business practices, [Thomas] Jefferson and his peers found it very hard to give up the unearned advantages of systems of exploitation.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure.

I thought of the courage it had taken for those young people in Tehran to go out into the streets holding those simple placards—"Where is my vote?"—with the openness and simplicity of a child, only to be razed down by bullets.

I was a human rights defender, and I based my criticisms of the state on legal grounds. But authoritarian governments are not fond of shades of gray; they cannot tolerate any criticism at all

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

Liberty and justice for all" were beautiful words, but the ugly fact was that liberty and justice were only for white males.

When I looked at the white people who were doing this, consciously or not, it made me angry because so many of them were baser, less intelligent, less talented than the people they were lording it over. But the whites were in control. We could do nothing about it. We had no power. That was the way society was. I perceived that this was the way it was meant to be: things were organized to keep those who were on top up there. The country was racist all the way through.

Thousands like me kept saying, "Let us in a little. Give us a piece of the pie." What hap- pened? Watts, Newark, Hartford. And what was the re- action? We started to hear a new jargon about "the urban crisis" and "law and order" and "crime in the streets.

The main thing I have in common with the kids is that we are tired of being lied to...If it is not too late for America to be saved, the young will save it – and the blacks, the Indians, the Spanish-surnamed,the young women, and the other victims of American society. They, if any, will become the conscience that the Country has lacked. They will try to force it to practice what it has preached.

It is going to have to be the have-nots — the blacks, browns, reds, yellows, and whites who do not share in the good life that most Americans lead — who somehow arouse the conscience of the nation and thus create a conscience in the Congress. My role, as I see it, is to help them do so, working outside of Washington, perhaps, as much as inside it.

Will part of this nation rejoice at seeing the rest oppressed, and reward a leader who has cunningly manipulated its fears and prejudices? Or will a majority of voters insist on a leader . . . who will appeal to their birthright of idealism and their love of justice, instead of to their heritage of racism and special privilege?

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

It is dangerous to feel sorry for one's oppressor — women are especially prone to this failing — but I am tempted to do it in this case. Being unable to love is hell.

cinsel s?n?flaÅŸmay? ve bunun aile yap?s? içindeki derin köklerini düÅŸünürsek, bugün doÄŸan herhangi bir kiÅŸinin, egemenlik psikolojisinin ortadan kald?r?ld???n? görebilmesi hemen hemen olanaks?zd?r.

Demek ki kad?n?n baÅŸlang?çta ve sonraki ezilmesine yol açan ÅŸey doÄŸurgan bedensel yap?s?d?r.

Tap?lmak, özgür olmak demek deÄŸildir. Çünkü tap?nma eylemi baÅŸka birisinin kafas?nda olmakt?r; o kafa da Erkek kafas?d?r. Böylece tarih boyunca, kültürün her evresi ve her türünde, kad?nlar bedensel iÅŸlevleri yüzünden ezilmiÅŸlerdir.

Moreover, the oppressed have no job to convince all people. All they need to know is that the present system is destroying them.

The failure of the Russian Revolution is directly traceable to the failure of its attempts to eliminate the family and sexual repression […] By the same token, all socialist revolutions to date have been or will be failures for precisely these reasons. Any initial liberation under current socialism must always revert back to repression, because the family structure is the source of psychological, economic, and political oppression.

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their condition.