#oppression

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual). ↗

— Ayn Rand

#earth #function #individual #individual rights #majorities

All oppression creates a state of war. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#oppression #state #war

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. ↗

— Jane Rule

#more #more and more #offered #oppression #our

War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#cheap #continue #famine #her #human

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. ↗

— Tacitus

#implanted #man #nature #oppression #resist

Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue. ↗

— Neil Tennant

#been #broadly #created #culture #entire

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house. ↗

— Eve Ensler

#illiteracy #oppression #women #women-s-rights #life

Some live for their own joy and pleasure. Some live to ease the burdens of others.   Then there are those who seem to exist for pain's sake only; that in the end the wrathful fire sent to consume their oppressors will be justified." ~ In loving memory of Miss Annabelle Fancher ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#annabelle-fancher #existence #helping #justice #life

Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man’s world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we’ve turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform ↗

— Susan Cain

#psychology #oppression

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave. ↗

— Assata Shakur

#oppression #resistance #oppression