The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling -… — Curtis Armstrong Copy Share Image
I find it really unique that the black community, who has been oppressed and is still oppressed, can find a way to… — Trevante Rhodes Copy Share Image
Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted,… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being… — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
Medical science has oppressed us with a new huge burden of longevity. It is in that last undesired decade, when passion is… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this… — Frei Betto Copy Share Image
The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it. It was a force for siding with the oppressed and… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
I want my children - I want Malia and Sasha - to understand that they've got responsibilities beyond just what they themselves… — Barack Obama 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
Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The character of the tribunes was, in every respect, different from that of the consuls. The appearance of the former was modest… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The churches failed to realize that the working-class movement was the movement of the humiliated and oppressed supplicating for justice. They did… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Called to the throne of my fathers, I have taken over the government, looking to the King of all kings, and have… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor… — Florence King Copy Share Image
At the age of nineteen, on my own initiative and at my own expense, I raised an army by means of which… — Augustus Copy Share Image
In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
If the Democrats have their way, African Americans will continue to feel oppressed, despised and handicapped into the indefinite future. All progress… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and… — Ginny Brown-Waite Copy Share Image
I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating… — Marwan Barghouti Copy Share Image
I'm still angry at so much - class, gender, society, the way we are constantly mentally coerced into behaving a certain way… — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
We have to remind ourselves constantly that we are not saviours. We are simply a tiny sign, among thousands of others, that… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“The oppressed peoples of the earth are not objects for the exquisite turmoil of European consciences. They are subjects from which to… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
There were many Americans in the Revolutionary era who believed that they, like the children of Israel, were oppressed by their colonial… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, s yet he opened not his mouth; t like a u lamb that is led to the slaughter,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
