654 Quotes About Oppression

P20 - The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.

What is amazing and revolutionary today will be oppressive tomorrow.

When we place ourselves in a position of judgment, then we turn ourselves into oppressors. Healthy self-esteem cannot exist side-by-side with oppression of any kind.

This is the real warning of Nineteen Eighty-Four: The danger comes not from our suppressors but from our ovine willingness to be suppressed.

اگر جوابِ عشق مجبوری ہوتیکہاں مجنون اور کہاں لیلا ہوتیاگر جوابِ اضطراب خاموشی ہوتیکون شہید اور کون قاتل ہوتانہ کوئی حق نہ کوئی باطل ہوتا

Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.

This condition in which women live is created out of, and defended by, a system of ideas represented by the world's religions, by psychoanalysis, by pornography, by sexology, by science and medicine and the social sciences.

All my contemporaries—hundred-and-fivers or convicts—will tell you how we livedin barely sentient fear, raisingchildren for the executioner,prison, or the torture chamber.

Whenever we use our religion, as individuals, or as groups within the church, to act in tandem with political and economic groups that arrest the voice of truth or destroy others, then we are Judas.