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Quotes About Exploitation

Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.
~ Rose Schneiderman
The Russians didn't invent partisan divides. The Russians haven't invented racism in the United States. But the Russians understand a lot of those divisions and they understand how to exploit them.
~ Fiona Hill
The United States tyrannizes and pillages the globalized world with its political, economic, technological, and military might.
~ Fidel Castro
Imperialist exploitation and an unjust international economic order are a cause of war.
~ Samora Machel
Politics has long been a place where fear and loathing are exploited: fear of progress, fear of the unknown, fear of the other, fear of our own neighbors.
~ S.E. Cupp
Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.
~ Dacia Maraini
The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.
~ Rose Schneiderman
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
~ Erica Jong
The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.
~ Kate Richards O'Hare
Within the gendered institution of prostitution, race and class create a hierarchy with indigenous women at its lowest point.
~ Melissa Farley
The music industry is a vicious business. It chews women up and spits them out.
~ Tori Amos
In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Many television weather-women were one abusive parent away from prostitution.
~ Dov Davidoff
I do not know the needs of a god or of another world... I do know that women make shirts for seventy cents a dozen in this one.
~ Helen H. Gardener
You take advantage of your position as a famous actor to meet women.
~ James Franco
Men in your position have women offering themselves in the hopes that they will get somewhere professionally, or socially.
~ James Franco
Wild at Heart made a few people angry-they thought I was exploiting women by showing that when a woman says no she really means yes.
~ Laura Dern
Men use women sexually. They use them, mistreat them, even from the point of view of vocabulary, the use of words. It baffles me.
~ Maria Teresa Horta
We feminists think that women deserve the right NOT to prostitute.
~ Melissa Farley
I think that those wrestlers, those women and men that go in the ring are not protected. I don't think anybody is ever looking out for them and I think that they are used badly.
~ Nancy Grace
Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.
~ Sarah Stillman
Young women growing into situations with no parents are usually material for exploitation in the brothels.
~ Yanar Mohammed
You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.
~ Maggie Georgiana Young
For myself, if I'm trying to obtain a certain longevity in my career, to establish myself as a certain kind of star, I don't want that black exploitation image.
~ Billy Dee Williams