Oppression Quotes

I realized now that militancy in the best sense of the word was the only answer where the black man was concerned, that any black man who wasn’t a militant in 1970 was either blind or a coward.

The legal theory is, that marriage makes the husband and wife one person, and that person is the husband.

I’m tired of having to consult a group of old white guys about my black girl craft. They don’t even know what they’re listening for or to.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

As you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed.

Just as the world war is no white man’s war, but every man’s war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman’s struggle, but every woman’s struggle.

The antisemites who called themselves patriots introduced that new species of national feeling which consists primarily in a complete whitewash of one’s own people and a sweeping condemnation of all others.