Quotes About Oppression

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

What I really feel is necessary is that the black people in this country wil have to upset this apple cart. We can no longer ignore the fact that America is not the... land of the free and the home of the brave.

Any woman's right to self-identify is a personal freedom I fight for, and those women who claim trans women are not women are perpetuators of gender-based oppression, and all feminists should be upset and moved to action against this.

Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong.

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

And that makes us (black women) feel like we have spokespeople, because everybody we encounter feels they have a piece of you and can tell you how to live your life

No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND TELL EVERYONEHOW THEY SPONSOR...THE KILLING OF THE YAZIDI NATION

I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND REMIND EVERYONEOF THE SUFFERING...OF THE ENSLAVED...YAZIDI WOMEN

Women in India experience much worse suffering, humiliation and slavery in all spheres than even the untouchables.

The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us and has worked the greatest injury to the race.

'The Handmaid's Tale' is a human story, and women's rights are human rights, and it's all about equality, but at the end of the day, it's not equal.

All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.

Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead.

As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done.

Very few people in prison have voices that go beyond the wall. It's my job to do the work for them because they have no one.

Divide and Conquer. As long as some people have commanded the work of others, this has been management's basic principle.

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses...

People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.

Nothing is more humiliating than to have to beg for work, and a system in which any man has to beg for work stands condemned. No man can defend it.

I don't think that my work is actually effectively dealing with history. I think of my work as subsumed by history or consumed by history.

Sexuality is to feminism what work is to Marxism.

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.