The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why did Irish people vote to introduce gay marriage? Because we know what discrimination feels like and if we can take the… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Of course, during the centuries the justice was always a rather elastic term, but always till now and “everywhere the justice is… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
One of the things is when you think, "Wait, I'm fearful of retaliation, I'm fearful of oppression because of someone who is… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Planted by your care? No! Your oppression planted them in America... nourished by your indulgence? They grew by your neglect of them...… — Isaac Barre Copy Share Image
... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“James Madison framed the constitutional order so that power would be in the hands of the Senate, which represents “the wealth of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The antagonism between nationalities will lose all its acuteness on the day when neither the iniquitous tendency to oppression and domination, nor… — African Spir Copy Share Image
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
“Social ecology is based on the conviction that nearly all of our present ecological problems originate in deep-seated social problems. It follows,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
That's how oppression works. Thousands of otherwise decent people are persuaded to go along with an unfair system because changing it seems… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others -… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“Some live for their own joy and pleasure. Some live to ease the burdens of others. Then there are those who seem… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to… — William Powell Copy Share Image
Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed?… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
As Co-Chair of the bipartisan Congressional Uyghur Caucus, I will continue to stand up, call out, and push back against the Chinese… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
With abolition, it's necessary to destroy systems of oppression. But it's equally necessary to put at the forefront our conversations about creation.… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the… — Dan Coats Copy Share Image
The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which… — Anna Louise Strong Copy Share Image
By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free!… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage,… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression... Our endeavors must be about the liberation of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The main problem with cultural appropriation comes from dominant groups 'borrowing' from marginalized groups who face oppression or have been stigmatized for… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Mainly, it’s not that there are things you can’t say. It’s that there are things you can’t say without the risk that… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
