Quotes About Oppression

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.

The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.

Toxic masculinity hurts men, but there's a big difference between women dealing with the constant threat of being raped, beaten, and killed by the men in their lives, and men not being able to cry.

Every dictator uses religion as a prop to keep himself in power.

I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.

So long as women are slaves, men will be knaves.

Women's chains have been forged by men, not by anatomy.

Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.

Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.

When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

I can hear the roar of women's silence

The worst form of slavery is when the slave believes he is free. This is how women under Islam feel.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

Romanticism is a cultural tool of male power to keep women from knowing their conditions.

It's mainly a few elite women who benefit greatly from standing with the forces that keep women down.

Violence against women is still treated as a lesser crime. Armed groups turn it into a weapon of choice because of near total impunity.

In In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, at that time I realized that education ... Is the power for women, and that's why the terrorists are afraid of education.

In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

Men, permitted to put words (and other things) in women's mouths, create scenes in which women desperately want to be bound, battered, tortured, humiliated, and killed.

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard.