Quotes About Oppression

Women have so much power that even hearing the word power frightens them.

In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.

Girls and women are most victimised in societies where boys and men are disempowered.

Current education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated.

So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.

In human history who hold the reigns of political power, and there are some women who were very much a team player during their husband's oppressive regime.

I think women can be just as sexist. Women can be misogynistic, too - more so, they have more freedom to do it.

I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.

If men and women are in chains anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

The white woman has never had the co-equal status that the African woman has had.

If you're someone who geniunally believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague....It's just pointless and deadly.

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

I think it's clear that women are treated terribly, and people are allowed to say horrible things about us.

Many entire nations are marginalised by the more powerful nations. That is causing imbalance, violence and terror. Women must do their best to introduce another perspective.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.

When I was at university, the policemen used to measure how short the women's mini-skirts were and how long guys' hair was. We were living under a government that considers people to be soldiers.

I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.

Turns out, this 'whatabboutery' is a classic way of silencing women when you don't like what they're fighting for. Don't panic, feminists are quite capable of fighting multiple battles at once!

I focus on a lot of women's issues.

It's really not enough to just have black women. A really good idea could be to comment on how they are treated by society.

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.