Oppressive Laws

Famous quotes containing the words oppressive and/or laws:

    “Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.”
    —bell hooks (b. c. 1955)

    “The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.”
    —Olympia Brown (1835–1900)