We're used to saying that women in other cultures are oppressed, but the question that I had when making the film was:… — Maimouna Doucoure Copy Share Image
I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the… — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's just not funny to disrespect other people's beliefs, backgrounds, cultures, or identities when those are deeply rooted in longstanding oppression. Jokes… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
“People force a despised minority to live in squalor, which makes them seem animalistic and subhuman, which encourages the dominant group to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us -… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
“I want to sharpen my pride on what strengthens me, my witness on what haunts me. Whatever we name ourselves, however we… — Eli Clare Copy Share Image
“Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn 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
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
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
“...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
“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
There are some groups that for years and years have not gotten the rights that the majority of human beings have, and… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Homophobia, racism, and sexism are all rooted in the same oppression that causes a group of people to internalize the oppression they've… — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
Even if it's a definition that feels oppressive to us, that oppression can be inspiring because it helps us push up against… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
When it comes to the discussion of oppression in America, we've been experiencing the worst of it for a long time. What's… — Chokwe Lumumba Copy Share Image
I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As an African American woman and the descendant of slaves, I do not condone any form of racism or oppression. I most… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or… — Yousef Munayyer Copy Share Image
Black Revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. We are shaped by our oppression. We are… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation... in the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“...it is not really the difference the oppressor fears so much as the similarity. He fears he will discover in himself the… — Cherrie Morago Copy Share Image
Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
“Women hating men is not an aberrant or unexpected response, but rather natural response to being controlled, and to being viewed as… — Coleen Kearon Copy Share Image
The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
Let our object be - our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And by the blessing of God, may… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of… — Benjamin Banneker Copy Share Image
“The highest form of resistance is to enjoy life, even in the face of oppression. If you can find a way to… — Morgan Rice Copy Share Image
Socialism and communism are set up so that a select few elite get most of everything and the rest of society is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Yet, feeling his way, starting by the passive opposition of small thefts, stealing sausage ends and crusts of bread when Signora Squeers… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
You ask what I have found and far and wide I go, Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew, The lovers… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
