No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Let no one consider themselves to be the 'armour' of God while planning and carrying out acts of violence and oppression! — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression — Mohammad Khatami Copy Share Image
“All my contemporaries— hundred-and-fivers or convicts— will tell you how we lived in barely sentient fear, raising children for the executioner, prison,… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“In 1969, University of Chicago sociology professor Marlene Dixon wrote that “the institution of marriage is the chief vehicle for the perpetuation… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. — James Madison Copy Share Image
If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it. — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Wealth is attended with power, by which bargains and proceedings, contrary to universal righteousness, are supported; and hence oppression, carried on with… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
From my membership in all of these groups I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned… — Chester Himes 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
Our strategy is how we cope--how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done… — Cherrie Moraga 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
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is… — Kenny Marchant Copy Share Image
It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Unless institutional power reinforces the hurt and prejudice suffered by a group, it is not oppression. By definition, a person of color… — Linda Stout Copy Share Image
Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“does our relational language, already imbued with oppressive cultural meaning-making, necessarily preclude the possibility of speaking about freedom? How can you speak… — Anais Duplan Copy Share Image
“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Often black people, especially non-gay folk, become enraged when they hear a white person who is gay suggest homosexuality is synonymous with… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“No badge can baptize brutality, no holy water can bleach blood stains – the land remembers the salt of tears of every… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, thats just what Ill do. Its this kind of regard for… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Oppression is allowed to survive because people don't like to talk about it or about acts like what happened. We're hoping to… — Tim Gordon Copy Share Image
Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner. — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image