Quotes About Oppression

Religion- made by men to rule women, children and idiots!

In a world like this with no laws, no charter of human rights, it's the women who suffer. It's the women who learn what it is to be tough, not the men.

A country where women are not free has no chance ever to be something good and respectable!

I always start from the stand that it is imperialism that needs us, not we who need the imperialists.

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.

A functioning police state needs no police.

Women's minds have been mutilated and muted to such a state that 'Free Spirit' has been branded into them as a brand name for girdles and bras rather than as the name of our verb-ing, be-ing Selves.

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

It is true that the battle for secularism must be fought in the hearts and minds of people, but how does one reach out to the hearts and minds in a fascist state?

When I was going to gay bars in my 20s and 30s, the older guys there explained to me that the police would occasionally raid these places and march the clients out, load them onto paddy wagons, drive them down to the station, photograph them, fingerprint them and put their names on a list. They were doing nothing wrong, and it was criminalized.

I remember, I used to get off a bus, and if there was someone sitting in the station, I remember thinking maybe they were from Shin Bet and came for me.

The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

Pride and Prejudice' is set in the early 19th century. At that time, women had the legal status of children. A daughter was the property of her father until marriage, when her ownership passed to her husband.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.

Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction.

People are scared to speak out against the status quo: their jobs and livelihoods, they believe, are at risk.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.

People say 'what do you mean' when you talk about 'bringing down civilization.' What I really mean is depriving the rich of the ability to steal from the poor and depriving the powerful of the ability to destroy the planet. That's what I really mean.