Quotes About Oppression

If Mitch McConnell were a TV show, he would be 'Mad Men,' treating women unfairly, stuck in 1968 and ending this season.

And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?

The same men who are placing all these outrageous restrictions on women's freedoms in southern Somalia – that type of mentality – that's what I had to deal with in captivity.

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.

These men of Law and their confederates ... the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up the free-born people of this Nation.

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it.

Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you're sitting in.

The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.

I do not imply that in the U.S plants, industrial plants, are places of exploitation where man is oppressed. 1 know that there are a great number of advantages here for too American worker.

The Indians are still winning the battle against the white men, but sooner or later, the white guy will win.

The white man in the tropics degenerates every day.

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

I'm very proud that we stood for the proposition that no man, woman or child should ever have to live in tyranny. We believed in democracy and promoted it.

When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

Men don't have the benefits of equality either.

But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.

If you're going to have a male dominant system, to maintain the system, you have to teach men to dominate.

You can hardly open a newspaper without seeing that a woman has been killed by a man for clearly gender-related reasons.

Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

There's always been a man telling me what to do.