Quotes About Oppression

That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence.

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

There is an intention to colonise Libya. And this makes the Libyan people want to fight the new colonisation by the West.

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

When people tell you that you're less-than and that you don't matter and that you're inferior, you internalize some of that.

If men become tyrants, they shape for themselves the doom of tyrants, who are always betrayed.

chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place.

I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

As the Taliban circled the bazaar in their Toyota pickup trucks, the ice cream is no longer my enemy. Sunita is risking her life for this pleasure. She is sharing it with me. Finally, my being fat is clearly less important than being free. I eat the ice cream.

Slavery is back but never went away

Ela mora dentro dessa coisa confusa Dentro dessa máscara monstruosa Dentro de uma autoestima morta Dentro do desejo dele de torná-la nada Ela está lá, eu juro Eu a ouvi arfando Eu a ouvi suspirando Eu a ouvi balbuciando alguma coisa Com o que um dia foi uma boca Eu juro. Eu a ouvi. Ela mora ali.

Digo la palabra en sueños, la digo porque se supone que no debo decirla. La digo porque es una palabra invisible… una palabra que suscita ansiedad, incomodidad, desprecio y asco

Hysteria--a word to make women feel insane for knowing what they know.

Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors.

A dominant ideology represents the view of a dominant group, often by making the existing order seem inevitable. Thus, by depicting motherhood as natural, a patriarchal ideology of mothering locks women into biological reproduction, and denies them identities and selfhood outside mothering.

gli uomini vivevano in stato di libertà, cioè nello stato degli animali, delle scimmie, del bestiame?

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth.

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

Nineteenth century industrial society had created a new class of slaves,

To THOSE who want to lift this nation from the dungheap of history, the past does not matter — only the present, the awareness of the deadening rot which surrounds and suffocates us, and what we must do to vanquish it.

It is more difficult for the poor to be virtuous. -The Cripple

I would like to see all this as a big joke that is being played upon us, but I have seen what was wrought in the past--the men who were destroyed without their being lifted from the dungheap of poverty, without recourse to justice.

Can't you hear the hell hounds of society bay in full pursuit behind us?