Quotes About Oppression

L'oppressione crea la psicologia dell'oppresso.

As Elizabeth put it, "I have neglected no duties, have injured no one, have always tried to do unto others as I would wish to be done by; and yet, here in America, I am imprisoned because I could not say I believed what I did not believe.

Woman is too volatile and spiritual, a being to be kept down by mere brute force," she [Elizabeth Packard] wrote. "You can cage a bird and thus keep her down on a level with her serpent-mate, but just give her the use of her powers, its freedom, and she will rise.

He thought of the Finishing School for Barbies where long-legged, high-breasted, stomachless girls went to get shaved clean, get their toenails painted pink, their nipples removed, and all body opening sewn shut, except for their mouths, which curved in perpetual smiles and led nowhere.

though he's wrong about how these methods work. It's religion—facts don't matter, especially when the facts involve women's liberty.

Who will rise up against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? —Psalms 94:16

Cette mentalité accumule, puis libère chez le colonisé, ce qu'il y a de plus inférieur dans l'homme collectif; on a tout fait pour compromettre la tradition, dont On souhaite au fond du cœur la ruine, puis on s'étonne du mal qui jaillit de ses fissures.

Even the sadistic misogyny of Buddha and Christ was nothing but an attempt to gain the better of a vastly superior opponent.

Palaces are built on the people's bones. To tell the truth, the masses would be better off without kingdoms, which is why it takes a gifted ruler to tell just the right lies so they never realize it.

Modern civilization is based on violence and slavery and fine words.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

In this country, we kept slaves from learning to read. Additionally, for a while in our history, you were adequately literate if you could simply sign your name—or even just make an X. In developing countries today, girls are still educated less than boys. What do these situations suggest about the potential power of reading?

Umilirea este cel mai teribil atentat la adresa libert??ii.

Nos manchan y nos llagan, creo yo, los delitos del matón rural que roba previos de indios, vapulea hombres y estupra mujeres sin defensa a un kilómetro de nuestros juzgados indiferentes y de nuestras iglesias consentidoras

the reading, which had been about Chinese immigration to America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and how Chinese immigrants had only been allowed to do certain kinds of work, like food or cleaning, and that's why there were so many Chinese restaurants and Chinese laundries, i.e., systemic racism.

Any woman refusing to take part in a patriarchal religion was considered a witch in those times. In your grandmother's, they couldn't hang anyone, but they could still frown down on them.

You hire our boys because they don't know how to ask for what they're worth. You treat them as if they were slaves.

The white man" represented "civilization" as a single human being defined equally by his whiteness and by his maleness.

All of us had been trained to take less than her share at the table, and some of us even hated and feared each other because that's what pressure from above teaches and forces and underclass to do.

Lewis B. Norwood, a wealthy North Carolina planter, was killed by two of his slaves. A husband and wife, they held him down, shoved a funnel into his mouth, and poured scalding water down his throat. (Norwood had just sold the couple's baby and was preparing to sell the wife.)

Next to the sale of their children or spouse, rape was perhaps the worst nightmare of slavery. We have no way of knowing how often it happened... We do know that white women were haunted by the fear that their husbands, fathers, or sons were having sex with their slaves. And we know that black mothers nervously watched their daughters to protect them from dangers they could not understand.

The male view of why women had to be kept out of the public world was basically that they just weren't up to it.

Phule had propounded the theory of the Aryan invasion as the source of oppression; dalit radicals of the 1920s took it to its extreme; Amedkar denied it.

And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others?