We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Students regularly act out little psycho-dramas of oppression before an appreciative audience of diversity deanlets who use the occasion to expand their… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
“Don't let a corrupt Media and Criminal Government continue to Brainwash You. THINK FOR YOURSELVES JAMAICANS WHILE YOU STILL CAN!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit. — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne;… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion…that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Feminists have convinced themselves that any difference between men and women is oppression and that women in the United States are an… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Russia is now very far from being a communist country, but when I walked around Moscow, I kept glimpsing these haunting images.… — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor;… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There are a lot of leaders that talk about ending things like oppression - whether it's discrimination or getting a job -… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
The real causes of terrorism are not poverty and oppression per se, but rather the bankruptcy of materialist ideologies, like Neo-Conservatism, which… — Robert Dickson Crane Copy Share Image
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Oppression Olympics is what smart liberal Americans say to make you feel stupid and to make you shut up. But there IS… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
Those who have to face persistent political persecution become highly politicized. Our lives take on a rhythm different from those who, on… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution,… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism. — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
“A stomach, used to being only half filled, becomes complacent; if it starts getting enough, it soon leads to a loud mouth.” — R. N. Prasher Copy Share Image
I go to see films at the multiplex because they are not good films, and so I don't have to think about… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“See the oppressed and the oppressor, and you will find the one that God will take part in on the day of… — Brother Pedro Copy Share Image
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world. — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy. — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Never give up. Things may be hard, but if you quit trying they'll never get better. Stop worrying and start trusting God.… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
The Naked Socialist connects the ancient order of oppression with the modern order of oppression. The Naked Socialist is a fabulous book… — Morgan Philpot Copy Share Image
