Quotes About Oppression

On the one hand, they had most of the legal freedoms, the literal assurance that they were considered full political citizens of society - and yet they had no power. They had educational opportunities - and yet were unable, and not expected, to employ them. They had freedoms of clothing and sex mores that they had demanded - and yet they were still sexually exploited.

The Beauty Ideal: What that ideal is unimportant, for any ideal leaves the majority out; ideals, by definition, are modeled on rare qualities. [...] If and when, by artificial methods, the majority can squeeze into the ideal, the ideal changes. If it were attainable, what good it would be? For the exclusivity of the beauty ideal serves a clear political function. Someone - most women - will be left out.

As a chief justice of the United States once said, blacks were three-fifths of a human, and only a full human being should have rights, the implication being that three-fifths of a human being was something fit to function only as a beast of burden. Well, that is a distortion exposing the enemies of logic and reason, and among them are mass hysteria, hate, prejudice, and ignorance. With

a man the South African government evidently thought too dangerous to be free, but also by then too prominent to be killed.

Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

I don't think we live in a particularly equal society.

D. Frederick Sparks

birth, girls' sexuality is a commodity, an object, an asset, and a "liability" to be marketed, bought, sold, and controlled in a birth-to-death cycle in which girls and women are straightjacketed by a litany of dos and (mostly) don'ts.

For many enslaved Africans, the Bible only became an avenue of resistance because it was one of the few books available to Black folks in a white, Christian-dominated society that prohibited Black literacy. Reading the Bible and applying its lessons of redemptive suffering, salvation, and struggle aided African Americans in their revolutionary fight against the "contradictions" of chattel slavery in a so-called democratic nation.

In the name of "class struggle" and "the unified interest of the working class," the Left has always selected certain sectors of the working class as revolutionary subjects and condemned others to a merely supportive role in the struggles these sectors were waging.

A] woman, working fulltime in the home or outside of it as well, married or single, has to put hours of labor into reproducing her own labor power, and women well know the tyranny of this task, for a pretty dress and hairdo are conditions for their getting the job, whether on the marriage market or on the wage labor market.

But the main reason why we cannot enjoy the pleasure that sexuality may provide is that for women sex is work . Giving pleasure to man is an essential part of what is expected of every woman.

Even the unspeakable tortures to which the accused women were subjected acquire a different meaning when we conceive them as a form of exorcism against their powers.

ofi?erii B?ncii Mondiale ?i ai FMI, care predic? înc? despre valoarea unui b?nu? acelora?i popula?ii pe care puteile dominante ale lumii le-au jefuit ?i s?r?cit vreme de secole.

It is essential to emphasize that violence against women is a key element in this new global war, not only because of the horror it evokes or the messages it sends but because of what women represent in their capacity to keep their communities together and, equally important, to defend noncommercial conceptions of security and wealth.

La caza de brujas no sólo santificaba la supremacía masculina, también inducía a los hombres a temer a las mujeres e incluso a verlas como destructoras del sexo masculino.

There are other grounds for believing that gays and lesbians should be respected and protected from oppression: their right to privacy and freedom of action and expression; the "victimless" nature of homosexual relations; and the many valuable contributions that gays and lesbians make to society.

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Perhaps 20 million had been killed; 28 million deported, of whom 18 million had slaved in the Gulags. Yet, after so much slaughter, they were still believers.

An effective tsar could be harsh provided he was consistently harsh. Rulers are often killed not for brutality but for inconsistency.

Perhaps 20 million had been killed; 28 million deported, of whom 18 million had slaved in the Gulags. Yet, after so much slaughter, they were still believers. At

So much can be explained by the habitual clumsiness of totalitarian panic.

history has been recorded by the victors, not the defeated or disenfranchised.

The Emperor was a bitter, cruel, unpredictable and depraved man, not above murdering people he perceived as his enemies, even if they were relatives.