Quotes About Oppression

We are sick and tired of living in debt and slavery,' the Rakalovsk peasants had their chairperson write. 'We want space and light.

There is the heat, which clots the air around her and stops up her pores and her eyes and ears

Your city institutions... Talking and talking of individuals... but crushing them in layers and hierarchies... until their choices might be between three kinds of squalor.

Liberation was fucked up.

Objects foraged out of Nazis' quarantine, fenced for colossal sums in the black markets of the world outside. Manifs stolen while the partisans fight for liberation, while Thibaut and his comrades face down devils and fascists and errant art, and die.

because of the systematic mental erasure that the settlers had undertaken.

As well as being a fascist, he's just not very clever

Woof," the dogman Nazi said.

Kim yaratm??t?? Kuma olmaktan, insan?n ruhuyla, bedeniyle tutsak olmas?ndan daha küçültücü ?ey var m? dünyada? Zavall? kad?nlar, mezarlar?n?zdan kalk?n! K?zl?klar? ellerinden zorla al?nm?? kad?nlar?n, a?a??lanm?? kad?nlar?n ruhlar?, kalk?n! Kalk?n, kötü dünyalar?, pis dünyalar? titretin! Ben ça??r?yorum sizi, ben, sonuncunuz! Ben, ba?kald?ran kuma.

To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!

There are two streams in the minds of our people: one in which women are really oppressed and given very low status and one in which they are given very high honour, sometimes even greater honour than men, at least if not in fact, in language and metaphor.

The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.

Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.

The kings are always fighting," she said. "All they want is more land, more power. They tax the common people to starvation and force them to fight in their armies.

people look down on a woman without education. She has few options. To survive, she is forced to put up with ill-treatment. She must depend on the kindness of strangers, an unsure thing. I do not want that for you

Write our story, too. For always we've been pushed into corners, trivialized, misunderstood, blamed, forgotten—or maligned and used as cautionary tales.

I've done nothing wrong - nothing except follow my heart. But the world is cruel to women who love.

But in some way, they remained shadowy figures, their thoughts and motives mysterious, their emotions portrayed only when they affected the lives of the male heroes, their roles ultimately subservient to those of their fathers or husbands, brothers or sons.

Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over.

In that year, I came to question everything I had believed in before. The only thing I never gave up on was the conviction that there can be no concession in the face of tyranny and oppression.

Some aweful things happened to a Negro kid named Emmett Till, and I was right in the middle of it,smack in the heart of crazy, senseless hatred.

the most fatal plan that could possibly be conceived to enslave a free people.

Humanity increased its degree of control over nature, but at the price of most people becoming subject to control and exploitation by privileged minority groups.

There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.