Music has as many roles as people make it. I traveled to Burma once years ago to witness the people's struggle for… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Men create their own gods and thus have some slight understanding that they are self-fabricated. Women are much more susceptible, because they… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of… — Hélder Câmara Copy Share Image
The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer.… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I speak about androids because I think the android represents the new 'other.' You can compare it to being a lesbian or… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Tommy moved on. "Lash, your people have been oppressed for hundreds of years. It's time to strike back. Look, you don't have… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Fighting, and the employment of force, even for the right cause, will not bring about good results. The oppressed who have right… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves. For they will justify all means of self-preservation, including the… — H. N. Ellessy Copy Share Image
I think during the Cold War in America at least, there was a division; there was the Soviet government and there were… — Joe Weisberg Copy Share Image
“I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
As a woman and as a feminist, I am very well aware of how women have been oppressed and segregated for a… — Jacques Myard Copy Share Image
Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person,… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
Every time I sit down to eat, I cast my lot: for mercy, against misery; for the oppressed, against the oppressor; and… — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
Do not use your energy except for a cause more noble than yourself. Such a cause cannot be found except in Almighty… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
Women have been oppressed for so long in any industry, it just takes time for a shift to happen to create more… — Maya Jane Coles Copy Share Image
The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways: 1st - When they are neglected in infancy 2nd -… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
The object of a dialogical-liberterian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I would like to address the peoples of the world, especially the Arab peoples and the US people. Their silence over the… — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
“And just as the functions of the bodily organs of plants and animals cannot be arbitrarily altered, so that, for example, one… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
