Quotes About Oppression

I do not fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.

Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our own debasement? Why do women always have to come clean? The magnificence of Genet's last great work, The Prisoner of Love, lies in his willingness to be wrong: a seedy old white guy jerking off on the rippling muscles of the Arabs and Black Panthers. Isn't the greatest freedom in the world the freedom to be wrong?

Why do people think that we're degraded when we're examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation?

Who gets to speak and why?, I wrote last week, is the only question.

The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan

Los hombres, débiles, espoleado para ser vencedores, nos necesitan como víctimas para poder sentirse siquiera.

Marx - L'ouvrier est ainsi triplement aliéné : - Par rapport à lui-même (il a vendu sa force de travail au capitaliste) ; - Par rapport à la marchandise (le produit de son travail appartient à un autre, le capitaliste) ; - Par rapport au capitaliste lui-même (le salariat est une forme substitutive de l'esclavage dans laquelle les individus ne sont pas juridiquement la propriété des maîtres).

Mrs. Scatcherd raps Dutchy's knuckles several times with a long wooden ruler, though it seems to me a halfhearted penalty. He barely winces, then shakes his hands twice in the air and winks at me. Truly , there isn't much more she can do. Stripped of family and identity, fed meager rations, consigned to hard wooden seats until we are to be, as Slobbery Jack suggested, sold into slavery — our mere existence is punishment enough.

This is why we can't leave the making of laws to men. They result in travesties of injustice that unfairly burden the poor. And women. Those high and mighty aristocrats, in their black robes and powdered wigs—they have no idea.

We took away their country and their means of support. It was for this and against this that they made war. Could anyone expect less?

And though they were called savages, even a prominent English general, Philip Sheridan, had to admit, "We took away their country and their means of support. It was for this and against this that they made war. Could anyone expect less?

subjugating opponents, what the Romans termed Vae victis (Woe to the conquered).

The entire gamut of scandal, hate, and lying is prepared for a poor man in this world who dares to work for the truth. That is why they got rid of me too: they feared me, for wickedness fears Truth.

Henny "was one of those women who secretly symphathize with all women against all men; life was a rotten deal, with men holding all the aces.

You were breaking my bones and spirit and forcing your beastly love on me: a brute, a savage, a wild Indian wouldn't do what you did, slobbering round me and calling it love and filling me with children month after month and year after year while I hated and detested you and screamed in your ears to get away from me, but you wouldn't let me go.

God, what we women have to put up with; and I'm not even allowed to complain.

The crowd had broken into song, not in unison, but in a medley of rhythms and melodies. They sang in many Old World tongues, and clapped and drummed. They played on homemade instruments previously proscribed, and clicked their tongues and whistled. These were secret songs, learned from illegal sources, or composed and played in dark, hidden places. These were songs they had been prepared to die for.

Yet here stand women not simply accused, but already judged, sentenced and condemned.

Toute démarche qui tend à nous faire mieux accepter les contraintes sociales est dangereuse, et ne peut en aucun cas être qualifiée de "libératrice". C'est pourquoi la "revalorisation du corps des femmes", sans autre précision, est un projet extrêmement ambigu.

En tant que groupe effectivement soumis à ce rapport de production, elles constituent une classe, en tant que catégorie d'êtres humains destinés par naissance à entrer dans cette classe, elles constituent une caste.

Le grand danger qui guette la lutte des femmes aujourd'hui est celui-ci : que l'en deça de la question féministe soit présenté et vécu, comme son au-delà, permettant ou visant à permettre, l'économie...de la lutte tout simplement.

La psychanalyse et la sociologie ne prennent pas en compte l'oppression des femmes. Ne la prenant pas en compte, elles la reprennent nécessairement à leur compte : elles l'intègrent comme un donné.

Toute connaissance est le produit d'une situation historique, qu'elle le sache ou non. Mais qu'elle le sache ou non fait une grande différence ; si elle ne le sait pas, si elle se prétend "neutre", elle nie l'histoire qu'elle prétend expliquer, elle est idéologie et non connaissance. Toute connaissance qui ne reconnaît pas, qui ne prend pas pour prémisse l'oppression sociale, la nie, et en conséquence la sert objectivement.

Une connaissance qui prendrait pour point de départ l'oppression des femmes constituerait une révolution épistémologique, et non une nouvelle discipline ayant les femmes pour objet ou une explication ad hoc d'une oppression particulière.