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Quotes About Oppression

Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.
~ Angela Merkel
When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all.
~ Dale Spender
White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.
~ Carrie Chapman Catt
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
~ Edna O'Brien
ALL men keep ALL women in a state of fear
~ Susan Brownmiller
Meanwhile, every eighteen seconds a man beats a woman, every three minutes a man rapes a woman, and every day two men will murder women. And that's just in the United States.
~ Lierre Keith
When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.
~ Harriet Ann Jacobs
Men have been trained and conditioned by women, not unlike the way Pavlov conditioned his dogs, into becoming their slaves.
~ Esther Vilar
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
~ George Washington
I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.
~ Harriet Martineau
. .women are house as well as factory slaves and are forced to bear a double workload.
~ Clara Zetkin
The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.
~ Susan Faludi
The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes.
~ Ida B. Wells
Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don't love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a woman
~ Jessica Valenti
Woman's degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.
~ Jimmy Carter
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.
~ Flora Tristan
Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.
~ Nellie L. McClung
You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.
~ Alan Sillitoe
The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads.
~ Katharine Susannah Prichard
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
~ Indira Gandhi
Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was.
~ Mary Daly
Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression.
~ Frederick Lenz
When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.
~ Eve Ensler