Quotes About Exploitation

If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?

Colonialists stole not only the lands of African people and renamed them. They stole also their knowledge, so that they would know nothing about themselves

la carne da confianza e invita al abuso

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.

Being guided is not being manipulated. Being exploited is.

exacerbated eagerness to exploit the ignorance and prejudice of voters.

And so diversity remains a premonition of racial apocalypse; a photo op and dash; a commodity conveying value; a marker of moral credibility, even fitness in the Darwinian sense; a term of corporate management; an offering of racial innocence and absolution; a refusal of protection to historically negated communities of color; a performance for entertainment or edification or exploitation; another boring lesson in tolerance and civility; a mark of Otherness.

Keep them poor and keep them tired, and they'll never leave." How well he understood his people.

Sugar gave rise to the slave trade; now sugar has enslaved us.

That tablecloth created by forced labor looks amazing on that table manufactured with formaldehyde in a sweatshop.

Do you have the new phone yet that someone made continents away because they were forced to and then someone else starved to death because when they mined the components they destroyed all the crop lands and the forest?

a sad Italian history of corruption by local leaders and exploitation by foreign dominators, all of which has generally led Italians to draw the seemingly accurate conclusion that nobody and nothing in this world can be trusted. Because the world is so corrupted, misspoken, unstable, exaggerated and unfair, one should trust only what one can experience with one's own senses, and this makes the senses stronger in Italy than anywhere in Europe.

Women were something best bought, he'd found. Pay them, f*ck them, and send them away in the morning. That way avoided tears, recriminations, and feminine disappointment. Oh, and small things like being slapped across the face. Mick rubbed his jaw. But Silence wasn't one of his whores, as Harry had pointed out. Mick couldn't send her away. And he couldn't let her starve herself—he wouldn't let anyone hurt her, including herself.

The oppression and exploitation of Latinos (like Asians) have historical roots unknown to most Americans. People who learn at least a little about Black slavery remain totally ignorant about how the United States seized half of Mexico or how it has colonized Puerto Rico.

La dignidad del trabajo es una palabrería empresarial para mantener a costa de los principios de dignidad humana condiciones no superadas de esclavitud. La dignidad del trabajo es un mito cuando se trabaja por necesidad.

We, ironically known as the civilizados - in practically everything that matters they're a damned sight more civilized than we are - bring them so-called progress, which harms them, so-called change, which harms them, so-called civilization, which harms them even more, and desease, which kills them.

As the working girls in the local brothels would later testify, he treated women as devoid of human feelings, therefore unworthy of tenderness or respect.

Porque esta no es una guerra cualquiera. Esta es una guerra justa, una guerra contra la miseria, contra la injusticia, contra la explotación. Una guerra por el futuro. ¿Vosotros os dais cuenta de que por primera vez tenemos nuestro destino en nuestras manos? ¿Os dais cuenta de que por primera vez en la historia de este puto país, podemos decidir qué queremos ser, cómo queremos vivir?

Make it so people can actually find good housing, can find good quality jobs and can afford to live - then we can weaken the climate of insecurity and fear that allow people to be exploited to increase division.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.

Criminals usually prey on weakness. They can smell it.

Unfortunately, the food industry has not yet faced this situation and begun taking measures to avoid exploiting our weakness for not knowing when we have had enough.