Quotes About Oppression

The women say that they could not eat hare veal or fowl, they say that they could not eat animals, but man, yes, they may. He says to them throwing his head back with pride, poor wretches of women, if you eat him who will go to work in the fields, who will produce food consumer goods, who will make the aeroplanes, who will pilot them, who will provide the spermatozoa, who will write the books, who in fact will govern? Then the women laugh, baring their teeth to the fullest extent.

They say, hell, let the earth become a vast hell destroying killing and setting fire to the buildings of men, to theatres, national assemblies, to museums, libraries, prisons, psychiatric hospitals, old and new, from which they free the slaves.

For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary.

C'est l'oppression qui crée le sexe et non l'inverse.

Dans la mesure où la femme devient réalité pour un individu uniquement en relation avec un individu de la classe opposée - les hommes - et en particulier dans le mariage, les lesbiennes, parce qu'elles n'entrent pas dans cette catégorie, ne sont pas des "femmes".

The refusal to become (or to remain) heterosexual always meant to refuse to become a man or a woman, consciously or not.

There is no possible fight for someone deprived of an identity, no internal motivation for fighting, since, although I can fight only with others, first I fight for myself.

This is impossible and one feature of lesbian oppression consists precisely of making women out of reach for us since women belong to men.

A luta de classes é precisamente aquilo que resolve as contradições entre duas classes opostas, ao aboli-las ao mesmo tempo que as constitui e as revela enquanto classes. A luta de classes entre homens e mulheres, que deveria ser empreendida por todas as mulheres, é aquela que resolve as contradições entre os sexos, abolindo-as e, ao mesmo tempo, fazendo com que sejam compreendidas.

La conscience de l'oppression n'est pas seulement une réaction (une lutte) contre l'oppression. C'est une totale réévaluation conceptuelle du monde social.

Car la catégorie de sexe est le produit de la société hétérosexuelle qui impose aux femmes l'obligation absolue de la reproduction de "l'espèce", c'est-à-dire, de la reproduction de la société hétérosexuelle

Whiteness has been, above all, a racial formation that presupposed and reproduced relations of inequality and domination between "whites" and their racial others.

Stop the fantasy we need to be defending freedom, because we don't have freedom in our own country yet.

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men's souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

At one time the Irish had been forbidden by English law to educate their children, to own a horse worth more than five pounds, to play the Irish pipes, to wear the color green… the list went on and on. Most of the oppressive statutes were no longer enforced, but the shamed submission they had engendered remained.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

Cruel persecution and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essense of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

That feeling of hopelessness only serves your masters.

I don't think fascism is dying for.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

I Ain't Got No Quarrel With The VietCong...No VietCong Ever Called Me Nigger.

The one who commits aggression and tyranny, and the one who helps him upon it, and the one who is pleased over it - all are party and participants in it.

And what is wrong with you that you fight not in the Cause of Allaah, and for those weak, ill-treated and oppressed among men, women, and children, whose cry is: "Our Lord! Rescue us from this town whose people are oppressors; and raise for us from You one who will protect, and raise for us from You one who will help.