Quotes About Oppression

Why do men feel threatened by women?

it is not the inferiority of women that has caused their historical insignificance; it is rather their historical insignificance that has doomed them to inferiority.

Men have reacted very negatively to the power that is inherent in women.

They have rejected that power and sought to convince women of the exact opposite, that they are powerless.

They have done this through sexual repression, economic repression, political repression, social repression, ideological repression and spiritual repression.

When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.

Women have been sexual slaves for most of recorded history.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

See how it's a philosophy that's been handed to you by a bunch of men who were afraid. So instead, they overcompensate with hatred and violence and repression.

Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard.

The history of silencing women is violent. And we feel that in our DNA. On a cellular level we know what it costs to speak our truth.

anybody who has anything abusive to say of women, whether ancient or modern, can command a vast public in the popular press and a ready agreement from the average publisher.

No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.

Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.

The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.

Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

The few women who have been admitted to the study are usually given a second-class status in which they are taught only the basics of self-discovery.

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

Sexism is not inevitable. It's only about controlling reproduction and therefore controlling women.

Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.

Any society that is silencing its women has no future.