“Elena: You're saying I'm going to go through my whole life without being oppressed at all? Penelope: Okay, you know that wouldn't be a bad thing, right?”— Mike Royce, Gloria Calderon Kellett, Penelope Alvarez, Justina Machado, imdb.com
“In fact the wives of the patriarchs, all untruthful, and one a kleptomaniac, but illustrate the law, that the cardinal virtues are seldom found in oppressed classes.”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, amazon.com
“It is appropriate that we celebrate Martin Luther King, a man who struggled so valiantly to restore humanity to the oppressed and the oppressor.”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“A desire for a more normal life does not necessarily mean identification with norms, but can be simply this: a desire to escape the exhaustion of having to insist just to exist.”— Sara Ahmed, amazon.com
“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”— Steve Biko, amazon.com