Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
“The stark nakedness and simplicity of the conflict with which humanity is oppressed - that of getting angry with and wishing to… — John Bowlby Copy Share Image
Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you… — Wei Jingsheng Copy Share Image
“Victims becoming torturers is such a classic historical pattern that we could formulate, regarding any revolution whatever, this iron law : combat… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
[T]he powers granted by the proposed Constitution are the gift of the people, and may be resumed by them when perverted to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in… — James Madison 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
“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
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
“Women prefer to serve the present and are afraid of age; they are in the grip of youth of their dreams. Age… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
“The so-called what they called "illiterate" people would not remain oppressed forever. The desire for liberation will, indeed, someday manifests itself.” — Henry Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual… — Albert Memmi Copy Share Image
There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of… — Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Copy Share Image
Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigue, to cracks, which you… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today’s modern slavery.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I think violence is part of the struggle against oppression. If something bad happens to these people [animal researchers], it will discourage… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
It's less to do about me - 'Hey, I'm black and it hurts my feelings; it's a symbol of slavery and oppression'… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
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![“Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at this court have asked me copies of it to send to their sovereigns, and it is inserted at full length in several books now in the press; among others, in…” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/508/thomas-jefferson-43_ambassadors_our-virginia-s-act-for-freedom-of-religi_2603800.jpg)
![“I think violence is part of the struggle against oppression. If something bad happens to these people [animal researchers], it will discourage others. It is inevitable that violence will be used in the struggle and that it will be effective.” quote by Jerry Vlasak](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d40/jerry-vlasak-20536_animal_i-think-violence-is-part-of-the-struggle_3172154.jpg)
