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Oppression Quotes by Bell Hooks
- The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin to move toward…
- Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually -…
- White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.
- Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class…
- What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black…
- Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face…
- It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of…
- 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…
- When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as…
- ..the struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who fight for the…
- Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.
- The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards…
More Oppression Quotes
- The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate… — Paulo Freire
- The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is… — Mao Zedong
- Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the… — Thomas Jefferson
- Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for… — Ronald Reagan
- When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you… — Robert A. Heinlein
- In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was… — Gerry Adams
- No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison
- I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to… — Theodore Bikel