Quotes About Oppression

Noise was on her list of slave sins, which we knew by heart. Number one: stealing. Number two: disobedience. Number three: laziness. Number four: noise. A slave was supposed to be like the Holy Ghost—don't see it, don't hear it, but it's always hovering round on ready.

My body might be a slave, but not my mind. For you, it's the other way round. I'd dismissed the words—what could she know of it? But I saw

our culture, even the culture of our faith, has helped anesthetize the feminine spirit.

Mauma didn`t want that cloth, she just wanted to make some trouble. She couldn`t get free and she couldn`t pop missus on the back of her head, but she could take her silk. You do your rebellions any way you can.

In 1770, the British East India Company – the world's first multinational corporation – increased the taxes it forcibly collected on crops, and ten million people, a third of Bengal, starved to death.

there. Of course, the DPRK purposely infantilized its citizens, making everyone helpless and powerless so that they depended on the state.

Of course, the DPRK purposely infantilized its citizens, making everyone helpless and powerless so that they depended on the state.

The notion of following your heart's desire, of going wherever you chose, did not exist here, and I did not see any way to let them know what it felt like, especially since, after so little time in their system, I had lost my own sense of freedom.

The terror here was palpable.

Resistance to tyranny ius obedience to God

the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

He chuckles at his own joke. No one wants the Jews. Not even America. Americans have no right to criticize us. They rounded up their Indians, you know. Put them on reservations.

I have a message for president snow, you can bomb us but if we burn, you burn with us!

It seems to me the world is almost too black to behold," Gellhorn wrote Eleanor in February 1938. "Half of it is bullied and terrorized and debased by dictators and half of it is soppy with cowardice and sloth and selfishness.

My desire to write is connected with my homosexuality. I need the identity as a weapon, to match the weapon that society has against me. It doesn't justify my homosexuality. But it would give me — I feel — a license.

I think that the old-young polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people. The values associated with youth and with masculinity are considered to be the human norms, and anything else is taken to be at least less worthwhile or inferior.

Hakk?n ve hakl?l???n bir tarafta, bask? ve adaletsizliÄŸin diÄŸer tarafta yer ald???na ve kavgan?n sürdürülmesi gerektiÄŸine inananlar aç?s?ndan önemli olan, tam da kimin, kim taraf?ndan öldürüldüÄŸüdür.

We were all Wives of Bath – from the teachers who terrorized us with their bells and gatings to the overfed boarders and snobby day girls..but no matter how hard any of us struggled...Bath Ladies College was only a fiefdom in the kingdom of men. — The Wives of Bath

force me to have a baby against my will. That's . . . It's barbaric. It's like . . . Handmaid shit.

He didn't believe in women's rights, but in controlling women.

Although Margie/Margot's situation seems unlikely, it was informed by real events. The case of Brittany Smith, who in 2018 shot and killed her rapist and was subsequently indicted for murder, was covered in the national press. The only way for her to gain her freedom was to plead guilty, thus branding herself a felon.

Yet it is true—skin can mean a great deal. Mine means that any man may strike me in a public place and never fear the consequences. It means that my friends do not always like to be seen with me in the street. It means that no matter how many books I read, or languages I master, I will never be anything but a curiosity—like a talking pig or a mathematical horse.

By a very conservative estimate, a hundred million people have died at the hands of their own governments in this century. Given that record, how bad could anarchy be?

By today's standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of today's U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence..