Quotes About Oppression

By peaceful revolutionary unity, without violence we can do it. The poor are being driven by hate and bitterness, they want to eliminate the rich who have been oppressing them. The rich are also prisoners of the system. They will have security, peace of mind and peace in the countryside if they help the poor uplift their lives.

In short, the abusive mentality is the mentality of oppression.

One of the basic human rights he takes away from you is the right to be angry with him.

Imagine the privileges an abusive man may acquire: getting his own way most of the time, having his partner bend over backward to keep him happy so he won't explode, getting to behave as he pleases, and then on top of it all, he gets praise for what a good person he is, and everyone is trying to help him feel better about himself!

Oppressive systems stay in existence because the people in power enjoy the luxury of their position and become unwilling to give up the privileges they win through taking advantage of other people and keeping them down. In short, the abusive mentality is the mentality of oppression.

Esclavas nuevas, ideas viejas

En México, a las mujeres que denuncian les queda claro que el ministerio público no les cree, que no es su defensor y que está a favor del agresor. Estas actitudes producen un ciclo de revictimización de la denunciante y siente mucho temor porque percibe que no se valora la injusticia que se cometió en su contra. El Estado promueve la denuncia del delito y luego maltrata a la víctima.

feminazis (un término acuñado por lo más recalcitrante del machismo violento para referirse a las feministas que supuestamente pretenden aniquilar a los hombres como género, al cuestionar su ejercicio de poder abusivo y desigual).

Cómo sabe un cliente si la mujer está ahí por propia voluntad o es esclava de una red de tratantes que la controlan con deudas impagables, amenazas y aisloamiento?

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

They [the slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom—jumped into the waves for freedom—starved for freedom—fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot—and their tyrants have been their historians!

L'Église espagnole est devenue la Putain des militaires épurateurs.

It seemed to me much more than the mere question whether the negro should remain in slavery; that it really involved the question whether liberty should be strangled on the continent dedicated to liberty.

Man puts manacles on his fellow-man; God never.

Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.

He ordered them to "read how you treated your King David and all pious kings, yes, the holy prophets and people, and don't treat us heathens as dogs," positioning the Jews as the enemies of the Old Testament heroes and repeatedly invoking Jesus as the Messiah who had been crucified by the Jews.

The Declaration of Sentiments, written in 1833, reads that our principles 'forbid the doing of evil that good may come, and lead us to reject—and to entreat the oppressed to reject—the use of all carnal weapons for deliverance from bondage; relying solely upon those which are spiritual, and mighty through God

Independence gained through violence could well end in a dictatorship.

We have much to learn from women like Ruby McKnight Williams, who studied the California color line and devised ways to resist it, only to see it materialize somewhere else in another form.

Major General Colin Gubbins, who headed the British agency charged with inciting sabotage and subversion in occupied Europe, observed after the war that of all the European countries overrun by the Nazis, "only the Poles, toughened by centuries of oppression, were spiritually uncrushed.

What most upset her, was the widespread use of slave labor. ...It is true Republicanism that drives the slaves half fed, and destitute of clothing...to labor...while the owner walks about idle...white men considered idleness a virtue even if they owned only one slave or none. No white man would do work considered too menial for his race.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters. What makes them slaves is the fact that they now are, and are always hereafter to be, in the hands of men whose power over them is, and always is to be, absolute and irresponsible.6