A Quote by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Born: June 9, 1939

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

Taslima Nasrin

I'm trying to make people understand: yes, women are oppressed in 'The Handmaid's Tale.' But the men are also oppressed, too. It's just a very scary world for anyone.

Reed Morano

My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.

Septima Poinsette Clark

Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women

Lorraine Hansberry

At the end of the day it doesn't matter which group is most oppressed or whether they are identically oppressed, what matters is that no group be oppressed.

Keith Boykin

Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.

Warren Farrell

Nobody in this country goes around saying: 'I'm feeling very oppressed by the E.U.' Well, one or two people do, but they're a bit odd. Ultimately, if they're getting oppressed by the E.U., they're going to start to feel oppressed by something else and just switch to a new subject of oppression.

Dominic Grieve

White women are themselves oppressed and that they would therefore be able to align themselves with other oppressed people.

Kirsten Powers

I do not like the way oppressed Filipinos are being treated now. They are oppressed and have no one to turn to.

Rodrigo Duterte

In North Korea, people who are actually oppressed don't even know they're oppressed.

Park Yeon-mi

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

Lord Acton

Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you.

Sheila Rowbotham

Oppressed persons, oppressed cultures, tend to be more political, obviously, as are those with a rage for justice, or the crazy messianic desire.

Gerald Stern

The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

Paulo Freire

Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they are completely oppressed by men; they take men at their word and believe in the gods that men have made up. The situation of women, their culture, makes them kneel more often before the gods that have been created by men than men themselves do, who know what they've done. To this extent, women will be more fanatical, whether it is for fascism or for totalitarianism.

Simone de Beauvoir

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