Quotes About Oppression

Like Shakespeare's shrew, she should have been beaten every day by her husband,

There are some people who want to feel power over other people. I guess it makes them feel better about themselves if they have someone to look down upon.

A life built on others being denied freedom is not a life I would want. I don't stand with the ranks of the abolitionists, but neither can I support the institution of slavery.

A people afraid were a people trapped in bondage. Break that fear and people would spring forward into freedom and liberty.

Strident voices everywhere were fighting to be heard, and just as it so often happened in the past, the voices that shouted the loudest were the ones heard best. The voices that fed on fear and prejudices drowned out all else.

Los hombres denuncian con virulencia las injusticias sociales o raciales, pero se muestran indulgentes y comprensivos cuando se trata de la dominación machista (...) piensan que una forma de opresión es insoportable y que la otra está llena de poesía

Resulta asombroso y, como poco, moderno, que sea un dominante el que venga a quejarse de que el dominado no pone bastante de su parte…

Women] are not even foreigners but we are constantly subtitled, because we don't know what we have to say. Or at least not as well as the dominant male, who has for centuries been writing books on the question of femininity and its implications.

After several years of genuine, sincere, and rigorous research, I have come to the conclusion that femininity is the same thing as bootlicking. The art of servility. You can call it seduction to make it sound glamorous. But it is very rarely a skilled sport. For the majority of women, it's the simple habit of behaving as an inferior.

cuando afirmamos que la prostitución es una «violencia contra las mujeres» es para que olvidemos que es el matrimonio lo que constituye una violencia contra las mujeres y, de modo general, todo lo que aguantamos.

En realidad, las normas no cambian, siempre se trata de quién se carga al otro primero. Solo que esta vez estuvimos en el buen lado del cañón. La diferencia es considerable.

La confiscación del cuerpo de las mujeres se produce al mismo tiempo que la confiscación del cuerpo de los hombres. Los únicos que salen ganando en este negocio son los dirigentes.

El capitalismo es una religión igualitarista, puesto que nos somete a todos y nos lleva a todos a sentirnos atrapados, como lo están todas las mujeres.

Qué se imaginarán los tíos que esconden las chicas para querer siempre verlas por todas partes?

Comprendre les mécaniques de notre infériorisation, et comment nous sommes amenées à en être le meilleurs vigiles, c'est comprendre les mécaniques de contrôle de toute la population. Le capitalisme est une religion égalitariste, en ce sens qu'elle nous soumet tous, et amène chacun à se sentir piégé, comme le sont toutes les femmes.

Hace falta ser idiota, o asquerosamente deshonesto, para pensar que una forma de opresión es insoportable y juzgar que la otra está llena de poesía.

Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie.

C'est quand même épatant, et pour le moins moderne, un dominant qui vient chialer que le dominé n'y met pas assez du sien...

Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété.

When was the first I knew something about her in a world where men were sex, but women?—weren't we just supposed to get out of the way when we saw it coming?

If she would work he wouldn't have to keep her in the house. She wouldn't be crazy, and she could tell him to go to hell. Did you ever think about that, my brilliant daughter? That maybe she's crazy because she can't tell him to go to hell? When a woman can't tell a man to go to hell, I have noticed, she is often crazy.

It's the gene for anarchy, alive in everyone born into the wrong class, the wrong color, the wrong sex — only in some it stays quiescent, while in some it makes a holocaust — no one knows this better than me.

it is most useful to think about these questions not in terms of the individual rights of transsexuals, but in terms of how these issues link with those of other marginalized populations, or with the functioning of the state in general.

Each belt buckle that German soldiers wore had embossed upon it 'Got Mitt Uns' (God Is With Us). Over the door of the courthouse in the Palace of Justice complex in Nuremberg were engraved the Ten Commandments. The group that established those commandments was precisely the group that was deprived of citizenship, human rights, and even life, under the laws promulgated in the name of that very city—the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws of 1935.