We're all rejected people, we know what it is to be refused, we know what it is to be oppressed, depressed, and then, accused, and I am very much cognizant of that feeling. Nothing in the world is more painful than rejection. I am a rejected, oppress...
The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.
Feminist consciousness-raising has not significantly pushed women in the direction of revolutionary politics. For the most part, it has not helped women understand capitalism–how it works as a system that exploits female labor and its interconnecti...
How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows—this at least produces a connection, fury and a pounding heart, and ...
Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
Being submissive is not being oppressed.
Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Women in Somalia face almost unimaginable oppression.
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
peace begins where oppression ends
First, it is a commitment to particularism, to giving priority to the specificity of particulars, not to abstractions and generalities that divert our attention away from concrete realities. Idealizations tend to be partial and distorting, obscuring ...
Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is bad and and other is good, those with “good” bodies constantly fear that their bodies will go “bad”, and those with “bad” ...
One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they are oppressed but don’t feel powerless. White people don’t feel oppressed, but feel powerless. Deconstruct that disempo...
Histories are instruments of oppression.
All oppression creates a state of war.
Prostitution is not a profession, it is the result of sexism and gender oppression.
