The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.

From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart of liberty. In 1789 the Federalists adopted Alien and Sedition Acts in a...

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?

If you’re going to hold someone down you’re going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must not accept, even for a moment, male notions of what non-violence is. These notions have never...

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.

other person” plays Hell trying to make-up for it. Married, divorced or dead, the ‘other person’ can never replace what was lost so muchearlier in the life and soul of the oppressed. Forgiveness must be...

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they...

Nothing shows a greater contempt for individuality than the train. Modern civilization uses every possible means to develop individuality, and having done so, tries everything in its power to stamp it out. It allots a...

First oppression is made into an excuse for terrorism, and then terrorism is made into an excuse for oppression.

The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the glue of male dominance. It has been based upon recognition of the difference men see...

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history...

In this landI have made myself sick with silenceIn this landI have wandered, lostIn this landI hunkered down to seeWhat will become of me.In this landI held myself tightSo as not to scream.-But I did...

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...

Voldemort himself created his worst enemy, just as tyrants everywhere do! Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there...

Human beings have capitalized on the silence of animals, just as certain human beings have historically imposed silence on certain other human beings by denying slaves the right to literacy, denying women the right to...

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.

… the reigns of the kings and queens who are portrayed as kneeling with clasped hands in the windows of churches, were stained by oppression and bloodshed.

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.

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

Perhaps Bug and Tony should have been allies. But any successful structure of domination always gets the weak to reject each other.

The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead...

The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite...

In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the...

Laws are chains to the many, and whips to the few.

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren...

A nation will never be vanished by subjugation or oppression, unless they get used to.

Seule l’oppression devrait craindre l’expression complète de la liberté.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

Mental Slavery remains the biggest form of oppression till this day. New insights or ideas is what shines freedom from such an oppression.

The central question is not: what is force and what is freedom? That is a good question, but in the realm of human cruelty – the realm of history – it is utterly abstract. The...

Assist your Muslim brother, whether he be an oppressor or oppressed. “Bu how shall we doit when he is an oppressor?” enquired a companion. Muhammad replied, “Assisting an oppressor by forbidding and witholding him from...

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

The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is...

No one is more vulnerable to fear than a man who keeps another in bondage. He will do anything to prevent justice from rearing its head — for he knows well what he deserves at...

It’s like the frog that tried to outdo the cow…see, the consequences are reflected in each of us as individuals. A people so oppressed by the West have no mental leisure, they can’t do anything...

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Fundamental to a radical and lesbian feminist politics is the understanding that ‘the personal is political’. This phrase has two interrelated meanings. It means that the political power structures of the ‘public’ world are reflected...

Let them shoot us in the head,My blood will grow rootsand will blossom.

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it’s safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made proof against the blaze and guaranteed their stark survival just by their earlier...

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with...

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Difficult times do not produce gentility, as if there is an angle hovering over the world of the oppressed.

Don’t be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say that there’s no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason for fighting. Because if you believe them they will be...

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed

But too often men react to women in positions of power with misogyny, often in sexualized terms. I have heard men in such situations talk about how “I’d like to fuck that bitch and teach...

When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility.