A Quote by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.

Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

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Exploitation Historical Intellectual Neutrality Oppression Possible World

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Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Born: April 17, 1938

Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity.

Rudolf Rocker

It's almost impossible to separate the actions, or it's also, it's almost impossible to separate the oppression and exploitation, criminal oppression and criminal exploitation of the American negro from the color of the skin of the person who is the oppressor or the exploiter.

Malcolm X

The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule.... It was the class struggles of the peasants, the peasant uprisings and peasant wars that constituted the real motive force of historical development in Chinese feudal society.

Mao Zedong

Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did.

Han Suyin

Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.

J. Stalin

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

bell hooks

The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression.

Tariq Ali

The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?

Scott McClanahan

I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.

Assata Shakur

In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.

Emma Goldman

Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the language in which the story is told - sexuality turns into a vehicle for the bestsellers of oppression. ... This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and of exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression. Sexuality is no exception.

Herbert Marcuse

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

Herbert Marcuse

The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to the past.

Juan Somavia

Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same thing.

Oliver Tambo

. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.

bell hooks

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world.