Robin Morgan Quotes About Oppression
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My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.
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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
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The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded so as not to see our own condition.
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Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.
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Women are a colonized people.
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The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.
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