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“Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system rather than her daughter. These mothers, victims themselves, have unwittingly become wounded wounders. Women need to attack culture's oppression of women, for there truly is a godlike socializing power that induces women to "buy in" or collude, but we also need to confront our own part in accepting male dominance and take responsibility where appropriate.”

“According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.”

World Character Shows Animal Conditions Mankind Pride Creatures Endure Oppression Observation Curious Contentment Restraint Coins Submission Exhibits Canine Animal World

Author:Albert J. Nock

“toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.”

Whole Lying Suffering Conditions Injustice Oppression Apathy Exploitation Incapable Toleration Insensitivity

Book:Suffering

Source: Suffering

“Black Revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. We are shaped by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets, places like attica, san quetin, bedford hills, leavenworth, and sing sing. They are turning out thousands of us.”

Black Streets Conditions Moon Oppression Hills Revolutionary Ghetto

Author:Assata Shakur

“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.”

Believe Has Beens Conditions Aspect Oppression Oppressed Vicious Blinded

Book:The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

Source: The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

“The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in fact the worries about preserving his privileged condition.”

Persons Facts Worry Conditions Privilege Excuse Burden Oppression Oppressed Privileged

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.”

Source: Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma

“If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.”

Ifs Enough Action Conditions Taught Oppression Taught Us

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“Through its appropriation of "texts of terror" and especially through the application of those texts to the Jews, the Christian religion created the conditions for the oppression of Palestinians.”

Christian Conditions Terror Jew Oppression Application Palestinian Appropriation

Author:Brian D. McLaren