Quotes About Oppression

he understood that terrible truth: that they were killed by the same people. Of course I'm not talking about the same individuals with the same hands, no. I'm talking about a monster, an immortal monster, the monster of many faces and many names who has so often killed and will kill again, because nothing has changed here in centuries of existence and never will change, because this sad country of ours is like a mouse running on a wheel.

Está na natureza humana desprezar o que está em baixo e odiar o que está em cima, até ao dia em que sobes de escalão e recomeças.

Until Puerto Rico is decolonized, American democracy will not be complete.

No pueden hablar de democracia quienes se niegan a defender la autonomía individual frente a supuestos valores colectivos que no son sino la sujeción a dogmas y a ideologías autoritarias.

La abjuración obligada de Galileo es una prueba de que el disimulo era la única salida.

Cada vez que un niño es concebido, el palacio de Herodes se tambalea en sus cimientos; cada vez que un niño es alumbrado, Herodes pierde un trozo de su reino; cada vez que un niño se amamanta a los pechos de su madre, Herodes es condenado al destierro

There was no air; only the dead, still night fired by the dog days of August. Not a breath. I had to suck in the same air I exhaled, cupping it in my hands before it escaped. I felt it, in and out, less each time…until it was so thin it slipped through my fingers forever. I mean, forever.

It does away with a lot of complaints that 'We Were Also Done Wrong,' from the Irish or other minorities, precisely because it recognizes the fundamental difference. African Americans were kept down by the force of law, not custom, and then every effort to lift the burden of the law was met with denial of due process.

There is no greater tyranny, Miss Rae, than convention

You will find in the end, my dear friend, that there is nothing more oppressie than freedom.

Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?

We seem to assume that no one really wants to be a girl or a woman, and therefore some people, say female-bodied people, must be forced into these abject genders

Dissociation appears to be... the internal mechanism by which terrorized people are silenced.

The desire for total control over another person is the common denominator of all forms of tyranny.

The righteous anger of women and other subordinated groups, which violates dominant norms of compliant and willing submission, is always particularly threatening

I argue that relationships of dominance and subordination are incompatible with justice, which must be based on principles of trust and fairness that are found only in relationships of mutuality.

Are you aware of the penalties reserved for freethinkers? I could send you to the block. Good.

Treachery, disloyalty, cruelty, tyranny ... are our ordinary vices. - Montaigne, "Of Cannibals

Women were supposed to be seen and not heard.

It's a trite saying now, been said so often, but it's true that the West was great for men and dogs but hell on women and horses.

Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich were shaking hands congratulating themselves on the introduction of an antigay bill in Congress. If it passes, they won't be able to shake hands, because it will then be illegal for a prick to touch an asshole.

Alabama sun was really something, Willie thought, it was really something. It battered you, enshrouded you, like it had made a pact with hell and humidity to bring you to your knees.

When we place ourselves in a position of judgment, then we turn ourselves into oppressors. Healthy self-esteem cannot exist side-by-side with oppression of any kind.

If that which conspires to silence poor people had hands, shame would be its thumbs.