Quotes About Oppression

It went on like that till some guys got together and came up with the one-god thing—him being God, the Father, and male and all that—and things went downhill for girls ever after that, far as I can figure. It was always, 'Get in your dress, girl, your smock, your shift or your burnoose or your veil, but whatever it is, girl, put it on and shut the hell up,' is how I see it.

Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.

Nothing is so oppressive as a secret; it is difficult for ladies to keep it long, and I know even in this matter a good number of men who are women.

Les bêtes sont ce que l'homme a le plus méconnu et le plus opprimé

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

Before Night Comes. Some people think of it as a modern classic. He also wrote We Ourselves, about Northern Ireland.

It was the hate of the used and tormented, who are the children of the used and tormented, and whose own children will be used and tormented.

Think of the Christians fed to the lions because they wouldn't renounce their faith. As if their god wouldn't forgive them their desire to life?..." "Are you kidding me? You're going to blame the Christians, not the Romans? How about they just don't throw them to the goddamn lions in the first place? Don't delude yourself. You're the monster here.

from this day on, whenever he sought to master a woman, whether by threat or strength or even with a look, the fear would flare and overtake him -- so wild and sudden it would drop him to his knees to cower in terror, gibbering for solace from his distant, punishing god.

Someter. Qué palabra tan suave para definir la esclavitud y el quebranto espiritual que dejaría a las quimeras bajo el puño del imperio.

Come on, their problem isn't that they're human. It's that they're subhuman." "True

The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

All revolutions lead only to another form of slavery.

Tubuhnya menua setiap kali lelaki itu memasukinya dengan paksa dan merenggut usianya sepotong demi sepotong.

Astounding how similar the face of freedom can be to the face of fascism.

I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!

I'm known for yokin jacks and beatin em wit smokin gats, Leavin token blacks with broken backs and open caps.

Boys start life on one side of the equation and girls on another side, our father explains. The boys' side has additions and the girls' subtractions. Girls have been unfairly pushed onto the margins where human failings will harm them more. "That," he said, "is human history.

Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.

It is a dire calamity to have a slave; it is an expiable curse to be one.

Other offences, even the greatest, are the violation of one law: despotism is the violation of all.

There's never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this 'homeland of the free.

Negroes Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day They change their minds! Wind In the cotton fields, Gentle breeze: Beware the hour It uproots trees!