Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
More quotes from Robin Morgan
White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.
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Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
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I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.
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We are the women men warned us about.
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Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
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Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.
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In the long run, Women’s Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it’s going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.
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Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.
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We can’t destroy the inequities between men and women until we destroy marriage.
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I claim that rape exists any time sexual intercourse occurs when it has not been initiated by the woman, out of her own genuine affection and desire.
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We’re not inherently anything but human.
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It isn’t until you begin to fight in your own cause that you become really committed to winning and become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.
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Sexism is not the fault of women – kill your fathers, not your mothers.
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There’s something contagious about demanding freedom.
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Don’t accept rides from strange men – and remember that all men are strange as hell.
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Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.
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I am an artist and a political being as well.
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Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.
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Let’s put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men’s liberation groups.
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The Roman Catholic church… carries the immense power of very directly affecting women’s lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion.
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