Quotes About Oppression

Colón va a pasar del asimilacionismo, que implicaba una igualdad de principio, a la ideología esclavista

Those who are marching into the battlefield and are ready to be killed today in the name of democracy, in the name of freedom, in the name of communism, are no different from those who threw themselves to the lions in the arenas. The Romans watched that fun with great joy. How are we different from them? Not a bit. We love it. To kill and to be killed is the foundation of our culture.

Bugün demokrasimiz, ne katilleri bulunmam?? fidan gibi delikanl?lar?n kanl? kefenlerine sar?l?p unutturulabilir, ne de milyonluk kredi ya?malar?yla sat?n al?nabilir. Emekçi Türk halk?, örgüt deste?i ve demokratik bilinciyle sa?c? yönetimlerin bu kara dehlizini de geçecektir. Kimsenin ?üphesi olmas?n. Aslan?n s?rt?nda hükmetmeye özenenler de bir gün bu aslana yem olurlar.

Wir sagen natürlich, die Bullen sind Schweine. Wir sagen, der Typ in Uniform ist ein Schwein, kein Mensch. Und so haben wir uns mit ihnen auseinanderzusetzen. Das heißt, wir haben nicht mit ihm zu reden, und es ist falsch, überhaupt mit diesen Leuten zu reden. Und natürlich kann geschossen werden.

sound and fury of these "my culture is better than your culture" conflicts between male-dominated colonial governments and male-dominated Third-World nationalist movements often served to obscure the fact that women were clearly second-class citizens in all these cultural contexts.

To them she wore the costume of the oppressed from distant lands and was the poster child of backwardness in a forward thinking world. To her, their faces bore the costume of the ignorant, and they were poster children for gross close-mindedness in an open-minded, ever changing world

Oppression can only survive through silence.

The children walking over the bricks of their destroyed homes, their mother putting up a tent, their father in jail... in tears and confusion looking at the tanks coming down the street, the men holding metre-long machine guns... they stare... need I say more ...just imagine how it would feel to be a Palestinian....

To accept passively an unjust system is to cooperate with that system thereby the oppressed become the oppressor.

The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.

Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.

Nobody rose in Packingtown by doing good work. You could lay that down for a rule—if you met a man who was rising in Packingtown, you met a knave. That man who had been sent to Jurgis' father by the boss, he would rise; the man who told tales and spied upon his fellows would rise; but the man who minded his own business and did his work—why, they would "speed him up" till they had worn him out, and then they would throw him into the gutter.

As if political liberty made wage slavery any the more tolerable!

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

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.

The last time Wendell's mother had caught them playing cowboys and Indians, she'd read them a twenty-minute lecture on the history of Native American oppression, which had really put a damper on things. It was hard to have a thrilling shoot-out while yelling: 'I respect your position and hope that we can come to a mutually respectful conclusion!

The Communist state knew, better than the Czech-Californian philosopher, where the greatest danger to it lay; in the realm of the intellect and the spirit. That the state was less and less successful at doing so is another matter, which merely confirms how right it was to be afraid; for, despite all the bribes and prizes and titles thrown their way, the artists were among the first to rebel.

government that breaks its own laws can also easily break you.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.

gods, the Dánavas and the Yakshas have born (sic) all, (his oppression); this lord of Rákshas therefore distresses the universe; and, inflated by this promise unjustly vexes the divine sages, the Yakshas, and Gandharvas, the Asuras, and men: where Ráva?a remains there the sun loses his force, the winds through fear of him do not blow; the fire

Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room,Barrel-house kings; with feet unstable,Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table,Pounded on the table,Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom.

Erkekleri bertaraf edin, kad?nlar ÅŸekle girecektir. Kad?nlar düzeltilebilir; erkeklerse düzeltilemez, ancak davran??lar? düzeltilebilir. SCUM k?çlar?ndan dürtünce hale yola girerler.

What will liberate women, therefore, from male control is the total elimination of the money-work system, not the attainment of economic equality with men within it.