Quotes About Oppression

emotional injustice

All her life, Sunja had heard this sentiment from other women, that they must suffer—suffer as a girl, suffer as a wife, suffer as a mother—die suffering. Go-saeng—the word made her sick. What else was there besides this?

History has failed almost everybody who is ordinary.

They were shot. All landowners who were foolish enough to stick around were shot. Communists see people only in simple categories.

being Korean was just another horrible encumbrance, much like being poor or having a shameful family you could not cast off

Viver todos os dias na presença daqueles que se recusam a reconhecer sua humanidade exige muita coragem.

All her life, Suja had heard this sentiment from other women, that they must suffer- suffer as a girl, suffer as a wife, suffer as a mother- die suffering, Go-saeng- the word made her sick. What else was there besides this? Should she have taught her son to suffer the humiliation that she'd drunk like water? In the end, he has refused to suffer the conditions of his birth. Did mothers fail by not telling their sons that suffering would come.

Living every day in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage." Noa

He belongs to that fraction of humanity which for centuries has made other fractions the objects of contempt and exploitation, then, when it saw the handwriting on the wall, set about to give them back their humanity.

Our imaginations are in thrall to the institutions of oppression.

No words to tell my students about that, or the children taken away, or the threats of violence. No way to say, Any woman who steps outside the confines of womanhood will be called a lesbian.

I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.

Statul, numit de toate rasele Lew-Yathan, are întotdeauna în frunte, ales de întreaga obÅŸte, pe cel mai tic?los, mai corupt ÅŸi mai viclean cet??ean. Teoria spune c?, focalizând ura tuturor, ca o lentil?, suveranul poate produce o raz? nimicitoare în confruntarea cu inamicul.

Erica Jong believes "gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Men's slaves, their hearts are greedy, The great do not mingle with their people when they rejoice.

I have seen many beatings Set your heart on books! I watched those seized for labor There's nothing better than books!

Lo, gold, lapis lazuli, silver, and turquoise, Carnelian, amethyst, ibht- stone and Are strung on the necks of female slaves. Noblewomen roam the land. Ladies say, "We want to eat!" Lo, noblewomen, Their bodies suffer in rags, Their hearts shrink from greeting [each other]. Lo, chests of ebony are smashed.

If law is laid waste and order destroyed, no poor man can survive: when he is robbed, justice does not address him.

Ladies suffer like maidservants.

Do justice, then you endure on earth; Calm the weeper, don't oppress the widow

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.

None of us have ever asked the men for anything, Agata states. Not a single thing, not even for the salt to be passed, not even for a penny or a moment alone or to take the washing in or to open a curtain or to go easy on the small yearlings or to put your hand on the small of my back as I try, again, for the twelfth or thirteenth time, to push a baby out of my body.

We are not members, . . . we are commodities. . . . When our men have used us up so that we look sixty when we're thirty and our wombs have literally dropped out of our bodies onto our spotless kitchen floors, finished, they turn to our daughters.