Quotes About Oppression

He replied with something like, "I will keep going until we either win our freedoms back, or I am in a Gulag." I understood. This is truly a time in history for the hammering out of heroes and heroines in the forge of crisis. And so it is also a time of cowardice, when those who choose collusion, when they know better, are allowing their souls to shrivel in that same heat.

One of my favorite quotations is this, from the late poet Audre Lorde: "My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you." It is truer now more than ever. This is a dangerous moment indeed.

He had no mother but Mother Jones Crying from a jail window of Trinidad: "All I want is room enough to stand And shake my fist at the enemies of the human race.

whenever the vicious portion of population shall be permitted to gather … and burn churches, ravage and rob provision stores, throw printing presses into rivers, shoot editors, and hang and burn obnoxious persons

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel.

Donde no hay propiedad privada ni siquiera es posible la rebelión contra la tiranía

Kein Mensch bekämpft die Freiheit; er bekämpft höchstens die Freiheit der anderen.

The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.

Decent people are killed slowly in this country. Quick deaths are reserved for scoundrels. They kill people like me by ignoring us, shutting all the doors in our faces and pretending we don't exist.

los peores misóginos siempre son mujeres.

el nivel de barbarie de una sociedad se mide por la distancia que intenta poner entre las mujeres y los libros. «Nada asusta más a un cafre que una mujer que sabe leer, escribir, pensar y encima enseña las rodillas.»

That sorry specimen is both pedantic and corrupt. A fascist buttock polisher," Fermín declared

At one point she said there were worse prisons than words.

Há prisões piores que as palavras.

Sie [Lorena] sagte, das Niveau der Barbarei einer Gesellschaft messe sich an der Distanz, die sie zwischen die Frauen und die Bücher zu bringen versuchte. Nichts erschüttert einen Kaffer so sehr wie eine Frau, die lesen, schreiben und denken kann und obendrein noch die Knie zeigt.

These new Francoists are as tight as two coats of paint.

We see witchcraft, finally, as a deeply ambivalent but violent struggle /within/ women as well as an equally ambivalent but violent struggle /against/ women.

In 1654, for example, Elizabeth Drew was whipped twelve stripes (a punishment comparable to that for rape of a single woman) for naming her master's son as the father of her child. When Drew persisted in her story she was whipped an additional twenty stripes and forced to stand in public on lecture day with a paper on her forehead proclaiming herself "A SLANDERER OF MR ZEROBABELL ENDICOTT.

to show how constructions of manhood and of womanhood can function to subvert the capacity to resist injustice in its many and intersectional forms.

Men, it seemed to me in those days, were uniquely honored by the stories that erupted in their lives, whereas women were more likely to be smothered by theirs.

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

The most dramatic example of the public aspect of patriarchal right is that men demand that women's bodies are for sale as commodities in the capitalist market; prostitution is a major capitalist industry.

Mandatory, and soon despised, dancing sessions were implemented under this same improving philosophy.

Instead of an unstoppable force for good and justice in the world and a deadly threat to the Enemy, male-female relationships have been dismantled of power.