Best 523 quotes in «oppression quotes» category

With the overall emphasis on condemnation comes a covertly oppressive message of grace. Mary recalls, “The leader of my women’s Bible study is an ordained clergywoman. She told us that no one’s gone to hell for having sex before marriage. If we ’fall off the wagon,’ just repent.” While this kind of message seems to help balance the Puritanical influence, it falls short of affirming sexual desire and its satisfaction for the single woman. The need to repent still declares that her participation in sexual activity is sinful without exception. This declaration is proving to be false and oppressive, sending the single African American woman on an endless sin/ repent merry-go-round of wondering if G ~ d is pleased with her. This woman’s sexual desire is normative, and unrelenting. What does G ~ d think of her acts of satisfaction, whether alone or with a partner? Perhaps a church can help by preaching and teaching a message of holistic human goodness.

Women exercise agency in order to survive the power relations and oppressive circumstances in which they find themselves. The theoretical task, Miriam argues, is for radical feminist theory to 'theorize freedom in terms of women’s collective political agency (power to): this task requires an understanding that freedom is not negotiating within a situation taken as inevitable, but rather, a capacity to radically transform and/or determine the situation itself'.

Women hating men is not an aberrant or unexpected response, but rather natural response to being controlled, and to being viewed as less than human by an oppressor. Afro-American slaves hated their owners; women hate theirs.

Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master's concerns. Now we hear that is is the task of women of Color to educated white women - in the face of tremendous resistance - as to our existence, our differences, our relative roles in our joint survival. This is a diversion of energies and a tragic repetition of racist patriarchal thought.

Words have oppressed, and liberated countless. It is a weapon that can be used to inspire and save lives, or discourage and forsake them.

Years from now we might be saying it's hyperbolic to compare someone to Donald Trump, because we will be quite sure no one is that cruel.

Yet, feeling his way, starting by the passive opposition of small thefts, stealing sausage ends and crusts of bread when Signora Squeers was asleep, he (Casanova) progressed until he arrived at the thought “ that it was ridiculous to be oppressed

You can get to oppression through regulation, especially in an "Idea Economy" which necessitates liberty of the mind to explore.

You can not fight "RACISM" when the "MIND" is weak. You can't fight "INJUSTICE" or "CORRUPTION" when you're not a true follower of your soul. You can't fight "OPPRESSION" when you "THINK" and "ACT" like the oppressor. You can't become a "CHANGE" when you keep on accepting the same old results.You can't become a valuable source in society when you devalued your brothers and sisters from distant lands. It is impossible to change America when you see foul practices at institutions and don't speak up because it is not affecting you. What affect others should affect you mentally and physically, be part of the "HUMAN RACE." Be your brother's/sister's keeper no matter what religion or race he or she is. Be the change that you want to see in America.

... You can only properly oppress people through a stability bordering on stagnation.

You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society.

Your people, your guards – they’re nothing more than killers, rapists, and thieves. The only difference between them and criminals is the uniforms they wear.

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, is what he says. We thought we could do better. Better? I say, in a small voice. How can he think this is better? Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.

You have heard that it has been said, You shall love your neighbor, and hate your enemy. But I say to you, Love your enemies, Speak truth to the liars, Bless them that curse you, Do good to them that hate you, This is what they least wish you to do; In this way you will overcome all oppression.

You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too early. We cannot be free until they are free.

You can't fight and claim you want to be free from the oppressor while still holding tight to things the oppressor gave you.

Your anger against every form of insult and oppression must be out of love.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

You should never leave your "house of bread", under any pretence, whether it is oppression, troubles or hardships.

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

You see, boys are taught that they can achieve whatever they want With poise, style and hard work, whatever they want Yes, that includes women’s bodies - and lives - and souls So when a woman says no and a man says “how dare you?” You can tell - You can tell that he isn’t accustomed to rejection

As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog.

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

All oppression creates a state of war.

An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.

Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it.

Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression.

Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.

From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new.

I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered.

I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit consent of a public.

I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed a fullness of truth long ago.

If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.

If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.

If it doesn't happen, the continuing oppression will be met by more resistance from a less tolerant populace which wants a democratic restoration. And that resistance will only invite further oppression.

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.

If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.