Quotes About Injustice

The tie that binds her to her oppressors is unlike any other. The division of the sexes is a biological given, not a moment in human history.

It may happen that in a matrilineal system she has a very high position: but—beware—the presence of a woman chief or a queen at the head of a tribe absolutely does not mean that women are sovereign: the reign of Catherine the Great changed nothing in the fate of Russian peasant women; and they lived no less frequently in a state of abjection.

Em verdade, as mulheres nunca opuseram os valores femininos aos valores masculinos; foram os homens, desejosos de manter as prerrogativas masculinas, que inventaram essa divisão: pretenderam criar um campo de domínio feminino - reinado da vida, da imanência - tão somente para nele encerrar a mulher

To reject the notions of the eternal feminine, the black soul, or the Jewish character is not to deny that there are today Jews, blacks, or women: this denial is not a liberation for those concerned but an inauthentic flight.

Si la mujer es prosaica, casera, bajamente utilitaria, se debe a que le imponen que consagre su existencia a preparar alimentos y limpiar deyecciones. No será de ahí de donde podrá extraer el sentido de la grandeza.

Encierran a la mujer en una cocina o un tocador y se asombran de que su horizonte esté limitado; le cortan las alas y deploran que no sepa volar.

How could women ever have had genius when all possibility of accomplishing a work of genius - or just a work - was refused them?

What is beyond doubt is that until now women's possibilities have been stifled and lost to humanity, and in her and everyone's interest it is high time she be left to take her own chances.

El opresor no sería tan fuerte si no tuviese cómplices entre los propios oprimidos

L'homme a réussi à asservir la femme : mais dans cette mesure il l'a dépouillée de ce qui en rendait la possession désirable.

If the question of women is so trivial, it is because masculine arrogance turned it into a quarrel; when people quarrel, they no longer reason well.

Muž je v práve preto, že je muž. V nepráve je žena.

Muži sú tyrani... Zaobchádzajú s nami ako s hra?kami... robia si z nás prá?ky a kuchárky.

The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.

Tak ako v Amerike nie je problém ?ernochov, ale problém bielych, tak ako "antisemitizmus nie je problém židovský, ale problém náÅ¡," tak problém ženy bol vždy problémom mužov.

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

To die for God is not a proof of faith in God. To die for an unknown and repulsive convict who is a victim of injustice, that is a proof of faith in God.

History is a tissue of base and cruel acts in the midst of which a few drops of purity sparkle at long intervals.

We pretend that our present system is democratic, yet the people never have the chance nor the means to express their views on any problem of public life. Any issue that does not pertain to particular interests is abandoned to collective passions, which are systematically and officially inflamed.

What should he do? It is simple. If he can escape from the grip of the people who wield the whip, he must run away. If he could have evaded his tormentors in the first place, he should have.

Evil inhabits the soul of a criminal without being felt there. It is felt in the heart of the man who is afflicted and innocent.

Such is the power of might. Its power to transform man into a thing is double and it cuts both ways; it petrifies differently but equally the souls of those who suffer it, and of those who wield it.

Il faut éliminer le malheur autant qu'on le peut de la vie sociale, car le malheur ne sert qu'à la grâce et la société n'est pas une société d'élus. Il y aura toujours assez de malheur pour les élus.

Throughout history men have struggled, suffered and died to free the oppressed. Their efforts, when they did not remain sterile, have never led to anything except the replacing of one oppressive régime by another.