“Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.” MenWayMayIndividualCommunityFreedomCitiesGroupsOppressionVillageSmall GroupsLarge CitiesSmall Villages Author:Morris Raphael Cohen
“All socialism involves slavery.... That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation admits of many gradations. Oppressive taxation is a form of slavery of the individual to the community as a whole. The essential question is -- How much is he compelled to labor for other benefit than his own, and how much can he labor for his own benefit?” WholeFormDesireIndividualCommunityResponsibilityEssentialsBenefitsLaborRelationSlaverySlaveSocialismOppressionCompelledTaxationCoercionEssential Questions Author:Herbert Spencer
“all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.” PeopleIndividualStruggleIndividualityDiscriminationOppressionDamageOutsidersBlankBlacknessOutcastPrismsGaynessFill In The Blank Author:Rita Mae Brown
“Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices.” MenBookSelfHelpingChoicesIndividualForcePsychologySelf HelpChangedMen And WomenMalesOppressionExploitationDominationRight ChoicesSelf Help BooksHelp BookNew Self Book:Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black Source: Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black
“...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and crime.... Nostation or character can destroy individual responsibility, in the matter of reproving sin.” BelieveMatterCharacterIndividualI BelieveSinResponsibilityCrimeMastersDutySlaverySlaveSouthOppressionRobberyRebukeIndividual Responsibility Author:Angelina Grimke
“A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common lot, that factors like class, race, religion, sexual preference, etc. do not create a diversity of experience that determines the extent to which sexism will be an oppressive force in the lives of individual women.” Has BeensIndividualForceCommonRaceClassShareModernDiversityDetermineFeministFactorsOppressionEtcSexismOppressedPreferenceAssertion Book:Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center Source: Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center