Quotes About Oppression
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
~ Indira Gandhi
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Zafar's lot never write what they really feel which is FUCK YOU WICKED CUNTS I HOPE YOU DIE PAINFULLY FOR THE HORRIBLE THINGS YOU DID TO US AND THE ARROGANT FUCKING CRUELTY YOU'VE DISPLAYED EVER SINCE. They write high-sounding shit like JUSTICE FOR KHAUFPUR and KAMPANI MEET YOUR LIABILITIES
~ Unknown
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when you educate yourself about clitoredectomies, infibulation, forced prostitution, rape as a war tactic, patriarchal religions, women painters, filmmakers, poets, writers, activists, politicians, sex-industry workers, historians, archelogoists and musicians, that's self-protection.
~ Inga Muscio
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There are two ways to make money in a capitalist, patriarchal setting: 1. Fuck other people over faster and more efficiently than they fuck you over. 2. Whore
~ Inga Muscio
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As ever, the original inhabitants of Turtle Island are entirely overlooked. Mysteriously, the only time indigenous people are guaranteed a mainstream Amerikkan mention is on Thanksgiving. Again, to contextualize, this would be be kinda like someone busting into your house and robbing you blind, then sending you postcards once a year to remind you how much they are enjoying all of your stuff, and getting annoyed with you if you don't respond with appreciation for their thoughtfulness.
~ Inga Muscio
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It's like suddenly in the Middle Ages, people figured men should be in charge of women's bodies since they were in charge of pretty much everything else
~ Inga Muscio
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Without honoring Whores, we cannot truly understand and transcend the dynamics of violence, destruction and ignorance fostered in our cuntfearing society.
~ Inga Muscio
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Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.
~ Inga Muscio
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Quién me pregunta a mí, quién pregunta alguna vez a personas que piensan por sí mismas y se atreven a vivir, y en qué me habéis convertido, a mí y a tantas otras con esta absurda actitud comprensiva ante cualquier problema, acaso no se le ha ocurrido a nadie que también se asesina a las personas cuando se les priva de la palabra y con ello de la posibilidad de vivir y pensar.
~ Unknown
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In this respect, the concept of "the people" is converted into, say, slaves, workers, wage earners, lesser functional officials, etc., and, as well, breeders of millions of disposable and replaceable "soldiers" who fight and die in whatever wars are designated by their higher-ups.
~ Unknown
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This can be explained in part by understanding and accepting the historical fact that almost all past cultures, however seen as great, otherwise, were fundamentally based on massive broadband slavery, serfdom, and various other under-classes whose principal function was to be in servitude to the upper overlords. Such was certainly the case, for example, in ancient Egyptian, Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Roman, Chinese, and most old Nordic cultures, etc.
~ Unknown
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How hollow must your life be for you to waste it hating and oppressing others, whose lives are of no consequence to your own?
~ Ingrid Weir
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First, the long emancipation centered on the resolute commitment of a few men and women—most of them black slaves, along with former slaves and the descendants of slaves—to end slavery and create a slaveless world.
~ Unknown
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Some patrons acted from respect or friendship for their clients, others from a sense of noblesse oblige, and yet others because the free people's gratitude could be profitable. Vulnerable black people paid premium prices for goods and services that white men and women bought cheaply. Landlords who rented land to black planters often exacted higher rents from them than they did from white tenants, just as employers who hired free black
~ Unknown
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You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: Now you are free to go where you want, and do as you desire, and choose the leaders as you please. You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.
~ Unknown
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They never stop, these Stepford wives. They something something all their lives. Work like robots. Yes, that would fit. They work like robots all their lives.
~ Ira Levin
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Today the combat takes a different shape; instead of wishing to put man in a prison, woman endeavors to escape from one; she no longer seeks to drag him into the realms of immanence but to emerge, herself, into the light of transcendence. Now the attitude of the males creates a new conflict: it is with a bad grace that the man lets her go.
~ Ira Levin
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Women in London must have learned not to breathe
~ Unknown
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Mussolini, like all other dictators, is betrayed by his own men.
~ Iris Origo
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I hesitate to demonstrate my ignorance, which is never a good idea, by the way. Because you only get oppressed.
~ Unknown
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Society now hovers over mankind like a crushing weight, sometimes it seems with a willful malevolence.
~ Irving Howe
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Was the process of institutionalization both so powerful and subtle, that I could be aware of it and yet be unable to resist?
~ Unknown
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Our own domestic Negro situation is another thing.
~ Irving Wallace
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The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.
~ Isaac Asimov
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