Quotes About Oppression

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El patriarcado es pétreo. El feminismo, como el océano, es fluido, poderoso, profundo y tiene la complejidad infinita de la vida, se mueve en olas, corrientes, mareas y a veces en tormentas furiosas. Como el océano, el feminismo no se calla.

Autumn of the Patriarch

he was not in favor of their acquiring any additional learning, for fear they would fill their minds with ideas unsuited to their station and condition.

Cómo surgieron de pronto tantos delatores, colaboradores, torturadores y asesinos? Tal vez estuvieron siempre allí y no supimos verlos.

Girls are denied the right to be angry and to thrash about.

Patriarchy is imposed with aggression; it demands obedience and punishes those who defy it.

As a rightist senator pontificated, "When democracy gets democratic, it doesn't work at all.

Pretenden que aceptemos su dios clavado en una cruz, dios de la muerte, que nos sometamos a su rey, que no vive aquí y no conocemos, quieren ocupar nuestra tierra y que seamos sus esclavos. ¿Por qué?, pregunto yo a la gente. Por nada, hermanos. No aprecian la libertad. No entienden de orgullo, obedecen, ponen las rodillas en tierra, inclinan la cabeza. No saben de justicia ni de retribución.

Los hombres temen el poder femenino, por eso las leyes, las religiones y las costumbres han impuesto durante siglos toda suerte de restricciones al desarrollo intelectual, artístico y económico de las mujeres.

Cuando se habla de derechos humanos, en la práctica se habla de derechos de los hombres. Si un hombre es golpeado y privado de libertad, es tortura. Si lo mismo soporta una mujer se llama violecia doméstica y todavía en la mayor parte del mundo se considera un asunto privado.

Aquí, en este mundo que dejaste atrás, a Dios lo han secuestrado los hombres. Han creado unas religiones disparatadas, que no entiendo cómo han sobrevivido durante siglos y siguen expandiéndose. Son implacables, predican amor, justicia y caridad, y para imponerlas cometen atrocidades. Los señores muy principales que propagan estas religiones juzgan, castigan, fruncen el ceño ante la alegría, el placer, la curiosidad y la imaginación.

Temple es una virtud apreciada en el varón, pero se considera defecto en nuestro sexo. Las mujeres con temple ponen en peligro el desequilibrio del mundo, que favorece a los hombres, por eso se ensañan en vejarlas y destruirlas. Pero son como las cucarachas: aplastan a una y salen más por los rincones.

Más valía morir en la rebelíon que vivir en la esclavitud

The technique of "disappearing" ideological enemies, which several Latin American dictatorships were so strongly committed to during the seventies and eighties, had been practiced in Chile nearly a century earlier. None of which takes away from the fact that our democracy was the most solid, and the oldest, on the continent.

Baila, baila, Zarité, porque esclavo que baila es libre… mientras baila

The traders standing nearby, or really most anyone doing just well enough to pay for the services of people like him, needed to be reassured that those they were considering hiring were in a state of sufficient wretchedness that they could be paid as little as possible for their labor, and never succeed enough to pull themselves up from that state. Thus, the boss men reassured themselves of their own importance. Pull-down-and-keep-down syndrome was how Elimane thought of it.

For the oppressed peoples and classes, for the peoples and workers who have taken control of their destiny, Marxism is a shining path, a sun of hope and certainty that never sets, a sun that is always at its zenith.

Few times in history do totalitarian or authoritarian regimes successfully repress their people for more than two generations, and zero times in history do these regimes last much longer than that, relatively speaking.

A source of embarrassment for Libyans, Gadhafi has never been a joke: disappearances, a police state, zero freedom of expression, and poverty for at least a third of the population of country tremendously wealthy thanks to oil.

The world has to have zero tolerance for naked dictatorship.

But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.

Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits.

The easiest way to subjugate a people is to erase a culture. I've seen it in war zones.