Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation…

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and…

— Bell Hooks

“Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. This was a definition of feminism I offered in Feminist Theory:…

— Bell Hooks

There's sort of a persistent misperception that talking about race is black folk's burden. Ultimately, only men can end sexism, and only white people…

— Benjamin Todd Jealous

In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist. But in socialist society there is no longer unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.…

— J. Stalin

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

— Tariq Ali

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It…

— Pope Francis

Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue…

— Emma Goldman

Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.

— Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means. In such…

— Paulo Freire

For me, feminism is a movement for which the end goal is to make itself no longer needed.

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When women turn on women, and take cheap shots at their decisions purely to score political points it serves as proof that feminism, as…

— Anonymous

Feminism as a movement for political and social equity is important, but feminism as an academic clique committed to eccentric doctrines about human nature…

— Steven Pinker

“Feminist politics is losing momentum because feminist movement has lost clear definitions. We have those definitions. Let's reclaim them. We can share the simple…

— bell hooks

“The methods from which the different non-anarchist parties expect, or say they do, the greatest good of one and all can be reduced to…

— Errico Malatesta

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers…

— Han Suyin