Quotes About Oppression

Long before the Europeans arrived in Africa, the blacks were enslaving each other. They still do," said Valmorain. "Just as whites are enslaving each other, monsieur," the physician countered. "Not all Negroes are slaves, nor all slaves black. Africa is a continent of free people. Millions of Africans are subjected to slavery but many more are free. Slavery is not their destiny, just as is also the case with thousands of whites who are slaves.

to serve an ambassador who was despotic toward his subordinates and servile toward those of a higher social rank.

Since when has a man not beaten his wife? If he doesn't beat her, it's either because he doesn't love her or because he isn't a real man. Since when is a man's paycheck or the fruit of the earth or what the chickens lay shared between them, when everybody knows he is the one in charge? Since when has a woman ever done the same things as a man? Besides, she was born with a wound between her legs and without balls, right, Senora Clara?

It was then that I understood that the days of Colonel Garcia and all those like him are numbered, because they have not been able to destroy the spirit of these women.

La condición femenina es una desgracia, hija, es como tener piedras atadas a los tobillos, no se puede volar.

Comprobaréis, señora, que los conquistadores carecen de vergüenza: llegan como mendigos, se comportan como ladrones y se creen señores.

Fascists had always been there, beneath the surface, just waiting to emerge. It was the triumph of the arrogant Right, the defeat of the people who believed in that utopian revolution.

Si hubieras tenido el pelo tan negro como lo tienes ahora, los patrones habrian tirado la caja en la basura.

El general Augusto Pinochet encabezó una Junta Militar y pronto habría de convertirse en la personificación de la dictadura. La represión fue instantánea, fulminante y a fondo.

Docility, praised as a feminine virtue, is our worst enemy; it has never served us well, it is only convenient for men.

The Indians' insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other explanation which is why the friars went out to hunt down and lasso the deserters and then whipped their doctrine of love and forgiveness into them.

Esta violencia es el resultado de una guerra perpetua contra los pobres.

The spotless order of barracks and the artificial peace of fear reigned everywhere.

Entonces supe que el coronel... y otros como él tienen sus días contados, porque no han podido destruir el espíritu de esas mujeres.

Y ejecutados los había por docenas de miles; tanta sangre habría de correr, que al año siguiente los campesinos aseguraban que las cebollas salían rojas y encontraban dientes humanos dentro de las patatas.

It was then I understood that the days of Colonel García and all those like him are numbered, because they have not been able to destroy the spirit of these women.

Empezó a ahogarse de miedo y claustrofobia, como le ocurría en la infancia, cuando se escondía en su improvisada carpa para escapar de los inmensos peligros del mundo, de la contundente presencia de los humanos, de los olores opresivos y los sonidos atronadores.

La caridad, igual que su socialismo, es un invento de los débiles para doblegar y utilizar a los fuertes.

Mientras los dueños del poder robaban sin escrúpulos, los ladrones de profesión o de necesidad apenas se atrevían a ejercer su oficio, porque el ojo de la policía estaba en todas partes.

wretchedness of some and the arrogance of

Patriarchy benefits from classifying people; it makes it easier to exert control.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them," wrote Margaret Atwood.

Los soldados estaban aún en ascuas por la despiadada guerra civil, el país se hallaba empobrecido y desordenado, y los indios eran sometidos a trabajos forzados. Nuestro emperador Carlos V había ordenado en sus reales cédulas tratar a los nativos con respeto, evangelizarlos y civilizarlos por la bondad y las buenas obras, pero ésa no era la realidad.

All the women and girls she knew, free or not, belonged to a man: father, husband, or Jesus.