Quotes About Oppression

Like most of the well-intentioned privileged Elisa has met, he has no grasp of the priorities of the servile, how all they want is to get through a shift without trouble.

He. Nobody spoke his name. Vidal. It sounded like a stone thrown through a window

That was the use of knives for women: to cut food for the men who killed with their knives… who killed those women's husbands, their sons, and their daughters.

The treatment of the Negro is America's greatest and most conspicuous scandal.

I have learned that the Mahabharata is about the way we deceive ourselves, how we are false to others, how we oppress fellow human beings, and how deeply unjust we are in our day-to-day lives. But is this moral blindness an intractable human condition, or can we change it? Some of our misery is the result of the way the state also treats us, and can we redesign our institutions to have a more sympathetic government?

You don't know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don't know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

The tyranny exercised unconsciously on men's minds is the only real tyranny, because it cannot be fought against.

Francamente hablando: hay en este mundo desigualdades que asustan

Your life depends on a random stranger who could kill you, will probably disrespect you, and will most likely pay you much less than you deserve. But even those prospects are better than the ones you used to have. This is the life of los jornaleros – the day laborers.

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.

Dictatorship means shut up, democracy means keep talking!

At a certain level of oppression, truth hardly matters, because the greater the lie, the greater the show of power.

Will there ever be a time when it is not a curse to be born a woman? When we can do no more, than stand by and be extremely brave and watch them die?

People were ferociously poor. Farmers were abused everywhere, taxed mercilessly to keep the artisans and merchants in the cities happier with their lords—and so less dangerous.

If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slaves or not when the summer ends.

It was the doing, he learned quickly enough—in the first inn that refused to serve him his requested flask of Senzio green wine—of the pinch-buttocked, joy-killing priests of Eanna. The

Consider the big fists breaking your little bones, or consider the vague bureaucrats stumbling, fumbling through Paper.

The dark hangs heavily Over the eyes.

México siempre construyó en su cúpula, de distintos modos, la similar versión de un hombre fuerte, encarnación institucional o espuria del poder absoluto, dispensador de bienes y males: padre, árbitro, verdugo

No se exagera mucho si se dice que, al final de la línea, la historia de México no la han escrito los triunfadores.

In the class structure of this country, the role of Latino people is to build the movie set of white perfection again and again.

those who are locked up know better than their jailers the taste of free air.

Every woman has known the torment of getting up to speak. Her heart racing, at times entirely lost for words, ground and language slipping away – that's how daring a feat, how great a transgression it is for a woman to speak – even just open her mouth – in public.