Oppression Quotes - Page 9

• We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets, zoos, laboratories, and circuses, and through our language. That we refer to meat eating rather than to corpse eating is a central example of how our language transmits the dominant culture's approval of this activity.

  Carol J. Adams

  Zoos, Animal, Meat Eating

  Carol J. Adams (2015). “The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Fashion, Light, Race

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• The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.

  Helen Keller

  Country, Mean, Men

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• One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.

  Thomas Sowell

  Dream, Real, War

  Thomas Sowell (2002). “Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression.

  Malcolm X

  Mean, White, Justice

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• Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

  Frederick Douglass

  Ignorance, Justice, Black History

  Speech on the twenty-fourth anniversary of emancipation in the District of Columbia,Washington, D.C., Apr. 1886

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• Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Government, Liberty, Purpose

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1893). “Instead of a Book”, Ayer Company Pub

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• The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets. Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.

  Akbar Ganji

  Class, Suffering, Faces

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

  Leon Trotsky

  Beautiful, Evil, Violence

  Leon Trotsky, Isaac Deutscher (1964). “The age of permanent revolution: a Trotsky anthology”

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• Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.

  Diane Sawyer

  Competition, My Best Friend, Realizing

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• I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form of an emotional tsunami.

  Charlie Sheen

  Strength, Emotional, Years

  "Angus T. Jones On Verge Of Breakdown? ‘Two And A Half Men’ Star A ‘Shadow Of Himself’" by Lauren Duca, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 12, 2013.

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• [Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction.

  Indira Gandhi

  Girl, Class System, President

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• Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Law, People

  "The Souls of Black Folk". Book by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903.

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• Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

  Assata Shakur

  Resistance

  Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.184, Zed Books

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• Let’s be gentle with ourselves and each other and fierce as we fight oppression.

  Dean Spade

  Fighting, Fierce, Gentle

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• There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.

  Dalai Lama

  Powerful, Long, Environmental

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• The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live with the darkness of fear, oppression, and threats. When all its attempts to move the adult to heed its story have failed, it resorts to the language of symptoms to make itself heard. Enter addiction, psychosis, criminality.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Moving, Psychosis

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• The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing pressures of life under the Greek junta - the steady drip of daily coercion - with an exacting empathy. In particular, her depiction of love under tyranny - by turns hesitant, furtive and liberating - is as astute as it is moving.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Moving, Empathy, Political

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• Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression... Our endeavors must be about the liberation of the woman, the emancipation of the man and the liberty of the child.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Men, Liberty

  "The ultimate male feminist? 5 things Nelson Mandela did for women" by Tara Kelly, www.cnn.com. December 8, 2013.

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• Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.

  Emma Goldman

  School, Mind, Moral

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.238, Univ of California Press

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• 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.

  Bell Hooks

  Feminism, Majority, Silent

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.18, Routledge

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• We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal - everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also their own, unique way of experiencing this oppression.

  Akbar Ganji

  Unique, Iran, Two

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion, policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners, had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Country, Order, Government

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• Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion....they need our legs & lungs of endurance.

  Gary Haugen

  Passion, Endurance, Needs

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• What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

  Audre Lorde

  Faces, Print, Heels

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