Quotes About Oppression

If the underdog were always right, one might quite easily try to defend him. The trouble is that very often he is but obscurely right, sometimes only partially right, and often quite wrong; but perhaps he is never so altogether wrong and pig-headed and utterly reprehensible as he is represented to be by those who add the possession of prejudices to the other almost insuperable difficulties of understanding him.

About 10 000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength.

No one is more vulnerable to fear than a man who keeps another in bondage. He will do anything to prevent justice from rearing its head — for he knows well what he deserves at the hands of those he subjugates.

My throat feels hard and swollen, as if bulky words are trying to choke me.

Then, a female was politically classed with infants, idiots, and lunatics, as 'naturally incapacitated… and therefore… so much under the influence of others that [she] cannot have a will of her own'.3 That is why there were such strict regulations governing her behaviour at university (and beyond), not only to protect her moral and physical welfare, but to defend good men, such as undergraduates and lecturers, from temptation and involuntary folly.

One of the most effective ways in which dominant groups maintain their power is by depriving the people they dominate of the knowledge of their own history. Lacking an appreciation of their own historical experience and the dignity, even glory, of the actions of their own people, the colonized are encouraged to think that they have no alternative to oppressive conditions.

Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live.

Anyone of their age had already spent years in the Hitler Youth being trained to ridicule, taunt, and bully,

The problem was that I'd never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn't allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.

after a few centuries, the new pharaohs saw our kind as a threat instead of an asset. Too many of us existed. Had we wanted to, we could have challenged the pharaoh's armies. Pharaoh Mentuhotep the Second changed our name to the Setites, followers of the god Set, god of chaos, mischief, and evil.

The nail that sticks out is hammered down.

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead, the replacement entailed English-speaking immigrants' killing most Indians by war, murder, and introduced diseases, and the surviving Indians' being pressured into adopting English, the new majority language.

The reason blacks and whites do not enjoy similar outcomes despite similar treatment by society is that the black and white populations are not equivalent. Although I expressed myself as gently and sympathetically as possible, my conclusion was that black outcomes reflect black behavior rather than oppression by whites. A

But the American public never did, because Elizebeth wasn't allowed to speak.

Freedom is slavery," wrote George Orwell in his novel 1984.

Nismo nemo?ni jer nam govore što da radimo i jer to ?inimo. Bespomo?ni smo jer volimo sigurnost ropstva.

Freedom requires truth, and so to smash freedom you must smash truth.

Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.

Los hombres tenemos la capacidad de meter miedo a las mujeres con una mera inflexión de la voz o una frase amenazadora y fría, nuestras manos son más fuertes y aprietan desde hace siglos.

Wir Männer sind imstande, Frauen allein schon durch einen veränderten Tonfall oder mit einem drohenden und kaltschnäuzigen Satz Angst zu machen, unsere Hände sind starker und drücken seit Jahrhunderten zu.

la historia está demasiado llena de pequeños abusos y vilezas mayúsculas

Translation has been used to oppress to ways in which it has been or can be used to fight oppression, to liberate minds and bodies.

Equality is a myth to protect the weak