Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to… — Arthur Lynch 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
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
Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
“And if there is no objective or universal truth, then any claim to have objective truth will be treated as nothing but… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Here in the US, we've built this insane infrastructure of oppression. When it's not run by a Barack Obama - who, by… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Traditionally Marxism attracts the oppressed. This, however, is not the case in the Arab nation... The socialist programs in Arab history did… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
The Constitutional framers were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
When I looked into the story of Soviet hockey and its players, I realized that it has nothing to do with hockey.… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
It won't ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It's going to happen sooner or later. The… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
Do not be despondent when fighting against the incorporeal enemy, but even in the midst of your afflictions and oppression praise the… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
Just as the children of Israel were directed by God to depart from the land of their oppression with its tyrannical monarch,… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
“Every person has many identities, and experiences those identities in unique ways, depending on location, time, and the rest of who they… — Sam Killermann 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
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog. — Hany Abu-Assad Copy Share Image
The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
“Oppression doesn’t make people noble. Give any of us a little comfort, and we’ll kill to keep it. The despised become despicable.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Hold just enough ego to be a man of your word, and to stand against evil mobs who force the absurd.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression. — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight. — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
