Exploitation Quotes
282 quotes by 227 authors
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..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be…
— Bell Hooks
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I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that there will be…
— Malcolm X
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Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the family…
— Bell Hooks
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As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness…
— Leon Trotsky
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Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.
— Malcolm X
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It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure…
— Ray Bradbury
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...people like to say things like 'all work is prostitution'. Most work is exploitation, but most work is not prostitution. Prostitution is prostitution, a very…
— Michelle Tea
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It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has…
— Karl Marx
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Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing…
— Gary L. Francione
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Welfare reforms and the whole “happy†exploitation movement are not “baby steps.†They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.
— Gary L. Francione
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In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.
— Emma Goldman
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Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.
— Bell Hooks
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The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never…
— Henry Hazlitt
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Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality…
— Catharine MacKinnon
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No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation. We have…
— Margaret Mead
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I would not question the sincerity of vegetarians who take little interest in Animal Liberation because they give priority to other causes; but when nonvegetarians…
— Peter Singer
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If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to…
— Erich Fromm
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Marriage exists as an institution of exploitation, it is not togetherness. That is why no happiness comes out of it as a flowering. It cannot.…
— Rajneesh
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The point of nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink. A platform which stands a…
— Joan Baez
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There can be no better measure of our governance than the way we treat our children, and no greater failing on our part than to…
— Jessica Lange
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