“Oppression cannot teach justice. That task belongs to empathy.” — Jamie Arpin-Ricci Copy Share Image
These my two hands / quick to slap my face / before others could slap it. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
“No matter how primitive a community is, it is against any type of oppression.” — Suwardi Surjaningrat Copy Share Image
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?” — Ray Gwyn Smith Copy Share Image
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
“They wouldn’t do it without a cause, would they? You must have done something to provoke them.” As if that’s how oppression… — Fredrik Backman 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
“It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
“The ease with which money forgives bayonets and lies to justify the massacre with reasoned arguments” — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for. — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Out of the mists of our long oppression, / We bring love for ourselves and each other, / And love for the… — Harry Hay Copy Share Image
The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In… — Arthur Melvin Okun Copy Share Image
I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“If we have learned anything from the liberation movements, we should have learned how difficult it is to be aware of the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and… — Benjamin Banneker Copy Share Image
“[Israel's military occupation is] in gross violation of international law and has been from the outset. And that much, at least, is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The wall rose high above us in the night, illimitable and fearsome. If we could just get across it, then we would… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“...we in the West constitute a society based on violence, oppression, misery, and domination that has led to an ongoing societal trauma… — A. Breeze Harper Copy Share Image
Jefferson, Madison and many others taught that complex laws and codes were sure signs of oppression. They agreed with Montesquieu, Lock and… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves. — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
“Sign of an abusive system: getting angry at other's real needs.” — Jeff VanVonderen Copy Share Image
“When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
“The oppressed are sometimes the most rabid of oppressors" (119).” — Elizabeth Nunez Copy Share Image
“The greatest weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” — Steve Biko Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
![“[Israel's military occupation is] in gross violation of international law and has been from the outset. And that much, at least, is fully recognized, even by the United States, which has overwhelming and, as I said, unilateral responsibility for these crimes. So George Bush No. 1, when he was the…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0a5/noam-chomsky-42_european-union_israel-s-military-occupation-is-in-gross_2941031.jpg)
