Quotes About Oppression

To be sentenced to jail because of your faith in God is to let you know the degree of darkness in that particular society

Tired of being stepped on, tired of being unappreciated and so f*cking tired of being disrespected by everyone.

None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.

Do you feel like a man when you push her around? Do you feel better as she falls to the ground?

The weaker are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

Merciful God, release us from the time of trial and oppression, that we may witness to the eternal hope of grief becoming joy and life rising from death. Amen.

The world is an unjust place." 'Death's brother is the name that poets give to sleep.

I remembered how in all the stories of my childhood the women were always hanging themselves.

Je finirais par bien connaître ce type d'homme, jaloux de son maigre pouvoir, pour qui je n'étais qu'une femme.

Il semble que punir les femmes soit le passe-temps favori des poètes. Comme s'il ne pouvait pas y avoir d'histoire à moins que nous ne rampions en pleurant.

Humillar a las mujeres parece ser el pasatiempo predilecto de los poetas

Humillar a las mujeres parece ser el pasatiempo predilecto de los poetas. Como si no pudiese haber historia a menos que nos arrastrásemos y sollozásemos.

Aquiles se sonrojó como si le hubieran abofeteado. Una cosa era llevar un vestido, impelido por la necesidad, y otra muy distinta que todos lo supieran. Nuestro pueblo reservaba los más feos apelativos para los hombres que actuaban como mujeres; semejantes insultos habían provocado la pérdida de muchas vidas.

Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep

Despite your wet-mouse weeping, I saw how you would not be ground into the earth. You loathed them as I did. I think it is where our power comes from.

The door closed, and the room swelled around me like a bruise. When she was here, I could pretend it felt small because of her, but when she left the four wood walls seemed to press towards me, like lungs that had breathed in. The window did not help, for it was too high to see from the bed and too small to take in much air.

Non mi sorprese come venivo ritratta: la maga altezzosaannichilita di fronte alla spada dell'eroe, inginocchiata a supplicare pietà. Le donne umiliate mi sembrano il passatempo preferito dei poeti. Quasi non possa esistere storia senza che noi strisciamo o piangiamo.

It was one thing to wear a dress out of necessity, another thing for the world to know of it. Our people reserved their ugliest names for men who acted like women; lives were lost over such insults.

Atau mereka menganggap, memang beginilah bangsa kulit putih, yang merasa lebih tinggi dan lebih baik dari bangsa kulit berwarna mana pun ?

Seperti juga bagi orang-orang pribumi lain, bagi Salim itu pun logika yang tidak bisa diusik-usik. Bila kita kuli kontrak, kita pun kehilangan semua kemanusiaan dan hak kita. Kita harus selalu melakukan apa yang diperintahkan oleh seorang tuan administratur untuk melakukannya, dan karena itu akan sangat ganjillah bila kita harus sakit karena satu pon daging busuk

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

If there's one thing homonormativity reveals, it's the troubling fact that you can be victimized and in no way be radical; it happens very often among homosexuals as with every other oppressed minority.

Performativity has to do with repetition, very often with the repetition of oppressive and painful gender norms to force them to resignify. This is not freedom, but a question of how to work the trap that one is inevitably in.

tired of hearing that the most resistance one could muster in a Foucauldian universe was to work the trap one is inevitably in.