Quotes About Oppression

Why are women still this underclass? If we all banded together...

Democrat women lead the way in showing other women how to be stepped on and diminished by men. That's what they do, for a payoff somewhere down the line.

At bottom, antipsychiatry is still psychiatry. And it doesn't really address itself to women's problems.

The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.

So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.

Women are enslaved by their own liberation.

I know all about the tyranny of women.

For so many centuries women have been suppressed and regarded as inferior. And that of course is not right at all, that we all have buddha-nature - so what's the difference?

I feel that within the Mormon culture there is a tremendous amount of fear - of women's voices, of questioning of authority, and ultimately of our own creativity.

In England the rich own the poor and the men own the women.

Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others - you know, hierarchical monotheism has been a real source of a type of oppression.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

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

a feminist is just someone who recognizes power structures that keep people from having the fullest life they can.

Black women were armed, black women were dangerous and the less money they had the deadlier the weapon they chose.

To be a woman is to be a fighter! A woman has to be strong and has to fight every moment of her life - against a society that believes in patriarchy, chauvinism and male privilege!

Black skin was filled with so many barriers, so many restrictions, so many.

The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

Since men are not equals in white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchal class structure, which men do women want to be equal to?

As long as there have been women." Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women.

Women who live their lives according to the suffocating religious rules created by men represent one of the saddest tragedies of the whole human history!

Where I grew up, women's liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her legs.

To be "out of touch" with a society in which women have internalized their subjugation is an admirable thing.