Quotes About Oppression

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

The Soviet regime robbed people not only of their ability to live freely but also of the ability to understand fully what had been taken from them, and how.

In all societies, public rhetoric involves some measure of lying, and history -- political history and art history -- is made when someone effectively confronts the lie. But in really scary societies all public conversation is an exercise in using words to mean their opposites -- in describing the brave as traitorous , the weak as frightening , and the good as bad -- and confronting these lies is the most scary and lonely thing a person can do.

Since White America refuses to see its past, they can't really see me either. Add to that a little of Madame C.J.s magic and watch me go invisible. Watch me step outside of history. Assimilation as revolution. That's one thing that most of us know that white folks don't. Race doesn't really exist. Culture? Ethnicity? Sure. Class too. But race is just a bunch of rules meant to keep us on the bottom. Race is a strategy. The rest is just people acting playing roles.

Elle porte de grosse chaussures tristes - des sandales de nonne -, idéales pour écraser les rêves.

No me sorprendió. Por norma, todas las religiones del mundo discriminaban a las mujeres, bien situándolas en un incomprensible segundo plano o bien legitimando que pudieran ser maltratadas y vejadas. Era algo realmente lamentable a lo que nadie parecía querer encontrar una solución.

But maybe that's what getting older is all about, right, Clark? You start to realize just how much of the world is unfair. And how few people care. It's not about justice, right? It's about power. And the people where I live…we don't have any. Not yet.

The Dark Ages never ended.

As well as religion, human history is full of depressing things like colonization, disease, racism, sexism, homophobia, class snobbery, environmental destruction, slavery, totalitarianism, military dictatorships, inventions of things which they had no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semicolon), the victimization of clever people, the worshipping of idiotic people, boredom, despair, periodic collapses, and catastrophes within the psychic landscape.

It's Mississippi, stupid," Neville said. "They can do whatever they like.

the real reason he'd keep running into monsters was because he was black, and when you're black in America, there's always a monster. Sometimes it's Lovecraftian Elder Gods; sometimes it's the police, or the Klan, or the Registrar of Voters.

The law's not for colored people, not down there .

We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.

For what it's worth, there are also more black men in jail right now than there were in slavery at its peak.

If you're a person of means, you get full service for all ten amendments, and even a few that aren't listed. But if you owe, if you rent, you get a slightly thinner, more tubercular version of the Fourth Amendment, the First Amendment, the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, and so on.

symbolic violence

To make a revolution, to be a revolutionary, you have to believe in something. Some new master plan for everybody to obey. But to be a rebel, you don't have to believe in anything. You're just a rebel, and you only want to be free.

We had to hate the Irish more than any blacks. They were fighting back against our supposed oppression of them. At every opportunity, the Irish were to be attacked,

An avid reader, he found himself agreeing with the former Soviet dissident turned Israeli political figure Natan Sharansky, whose The Case for Democracy (2004) distinguished between "free societies," where dissent flourished, and "fear societies," where unpopular opinions risked imprisonment and death.

Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much power over themselves as not to oppress; great might is a very great snare to many.

The liberty of God's people is a heavy grievance to their enemies, Esth. 5:12, 13; Acts 5:17, 33.

drove them at length to the most barbarous and inhuman methods of suppressing them, by the murder of their children.

Having been once incarcerated and treated in ways he had not enjoyed, he had since tended to come down on the side of flies and to reject the claims of spiders.