The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of… — Dominique de Menil Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make people understand: yes, women are oppressed in 'The Handmaid's Tale.' But the men are also oppressed, too. It's… — Reed Morano Copy Share Image
The oppressed people of Palestine, whether those who dwell in that bloodstained holy land or those who continue to bear the brunt… — Mohammad Khatami Copy Share Image
“For poor people, this required identifying with the oppressed, and counting yourself among them—which was something most trailer park residents were absolutely… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
No movement calls [migrant workers] oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning; for providing… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of… — Susan Brownmiller Copy Share Image
The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with progressive educators, already committed to a 'child-centered' rather than a 'teacher-directed' approach to classroom instruction. Freire's… — Sol Stern Copy Share Image
So what you do [under apartheid system] is you convince black people that the reason they are being oppressed is because there… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
There'll be no more big powers and oppressed poor - only fairness and justice for all, and eternal happiness. So if you're… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
If you don't have a bed, or a dresser or a wall, or a book or a toy you are oppressed. An… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not… — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
I know books that are really good and writers that are really good and they have become oppressed and ground down from… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
What this man did, Fidel Castro, is he oppressed his people for nearly six decades. That legacy is firing squads. It's poverty.… — Molly Qerim Copy Share Image
Everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Jon Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are… — Rick Sanchez Copy Share Image
Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Real Jews, in concord with some Muslims, continue their war against Zionists and against Israeli crimes. The oppressed people of Palestine living… — Maurice Motamed Copy Share Image
When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There are nations, where people live in captivity, fear and silence. I believe, one day from prison camps and torture cells and… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
“Oppressed Liberians can free themselves only through a positive mind, tied in with a Democratic approach. This is merely truths established by… — Henry Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
“To them she wore the costume of the oppressed from distant lands and was the poster child of backwardness in a forward… — Umm Zakiyyah Copy Share Image
The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
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![“So what you do [under apartheid system] is you convince black people that the reason they are being oppressed is because there are some within their community who just can't behave. And if only they could behave, then everyone else would have more freedoms and liberties, which, of course, is not…” quote by Trevor Noah](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/691/trevor-noah-1603_apartheid_so-what-you-do-under-apartheid-system-is_448153.jpg)
![“To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are the parasites of the oppressed.” quote by Sean Wilentz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c81/sean-wilentz-54845_caught_to-say-that-poverty-explains-terror-is-t_167403.jpg)
