Quotes About Suppression

I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine," so we suppress it—until it overflows.

In my own college life, I got through four years as a government major without learning that women were not just "given" the vote, that the real number of slave rebellions was suppressed because rebelling was contagious, or that the model for the U.S. Constitution was not ancient Greece but the Iroquois Confederacy.

Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine," so we suppress

I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me like snakes and toads looking for a chance to sneak out before I could stop them.

What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle (On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR)

So the Communist Party has shown the world that only force will be able to move it. The people are supposed to be intimidated by this colossal display of obstinacy, and, at least for the moment, many are. But they just wait in silence and let their resentments fester. The Party knows how to suppress, but it no longer has the power to lead. It has forgotten what once made it great.

The beast caged. Rather limiting for Mr Hyde.

The worst part of censorship is XXX XXXXXX XX XXXXXXX.

Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health — it rusts your spirit and your hips.

Truth grows even more powerful when it is suppressed, and that often it takes only one small crack to bring down the wall, to release it.

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.

If you shut up truth, and bury it underground, it will but grow.

We have reached a time where we are suppressing talents in our communities with our common thinking.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites.

You can never squash something and assume it's not going to come back in some fashion. It's going to bubble up until it explodes. Society evolves to find a better way.

A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.

It is the characteristic of privilege and of every privileged position to kill the mind and heart of men. The privileged man, whether practically or economically, is a man depraved in mind and heart.

People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man.

Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.

A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

With no one there to help modulate your feelings, you did a very smart thing as that little boy. You shut them down. Closed a door on them.

The preservation of individualism—of either type—has historically required the suppression of less privileged voices. The unacknowledged social underpinning of both forms of individualism is caste, privilege, and exclusivity.

As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure.