Quotes About Oppression

Women are here to serve men. Look at them, they got to squat to piss. Hell, that proves it.

...man is the only animal that strikes his women-folk.

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been "authorized by the Bible" and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit.

The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound

During the first suffragist wave in this nation, women were possessions, like a table or a chair. So violence toward them was quite condoned. The attitude has diminished, but it's still there.

The predation of wolves and women by those who misunderstand them is strikingly similar.

The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal.

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

Eventually I figured out there was something systematic in the way women are treated.

I've often observed that women can be the weakest link in women's rights.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Half the Sky: Turning oppression into opportunity for women worldwide

men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

The women's movement is filled with tyrants, just as men's political movements are equally filled.

Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to eliminate some of the difficulties that have been put upon us.

If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.