Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I know the truth of North Korea. The oppression and their tragedy. It cannot be silenced. — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy. — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I tried my best to fight oppression, but America's at her happiest ruled by liars.” — Mark Millar Copy Share Image
“The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.” — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
I would hesitate to give advice to the Dalai Lama and his people because they are suffering. The Dalai Lama suffered from… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.” — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
“The oppressed, as objects, as "things", have no purposes except those their oppressors prescribe for them.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them. — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Learning has been liberated from the despotism of the few and is now available to the mass public for one's own evolution.… — D. Allen Miller Copy Share Image
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Churchill the right-winger has been elevated to a status where you can't criticise him. People from the time remember him as an… — Ken Loach Copy Share Image
The fact that apartheid has been tied up with white supremacy, capitalist exploitation, and deliberate oppression makes the problem much more complex.… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
For decades, free nations tolerated oppression in the Middle East for the sake of stability. In practice, this approach brought little stability… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It's a stereotype that Jews run Hollywood. Guess what? It's true. Jews do run Hollywood. It's a stereotype that many Jews are… — Bryan Fogel Copy Share Image
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
The pacifist thinks that the alternative to war is peace; it is not. Sometimes the alternative is oppression. Sometimes certain God-given rights… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is… — Golda Poretsky Copy Share Image
“The central question is not: what is force and what is freedom? That is a good question, but in the realm of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova] In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity,… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression. — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice. — Tawakkol Karman Copy Share Image
Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves... — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image