When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
There is more racial integration in American life and many more people of color serving as elected officials and corporate leaders than… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
“What writer Audre Lorde says to black men and women is true for all of us: "If we do not define ourselves,… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“Feminist consciousness is consciousness of victimization. To apprehend one-self as victim is to be aware of an alien and hostile force outside… — Sandra Bartky Lee Copy Share Image
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
To take on the question of race in America and believe that you could transform this country so that it would actually… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
For black folks, the Confederate flag represents the same thing that the Nazi flag represents to the Jews. There is absolutely no… — Ken Page Copy Share Image
Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
The reason I joined the struggle against Apartheid was because you had this system of oppression, which affected everybody who was black.… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
The oppression of it, the sense of helplessness, and really being part of a system and a bureaucracy that is arbitrary. I… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks… — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Walking into the studio making 'Scared Hearts Club,' it was important for us as artists to write a joyful record, but using… — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Some will say: "Why should we celebrate the birth of colonialism, of oppression, of cultural genocide through Canada 150?" It's 2017. In… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
Marriage can be a religious thing. It can also be a secular thing. And guess what? Not everyone in the world is… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
“Our privileges are the things not within our own control that push us forward and move us ahead from that starting line.… — luvvie ajayi Copy Share Image
Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The left takes credit for being the political aisle promoting human rights and fighting oppression, but in the case of Cuba, its… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I think America offers a dream that cannot be fulfilled as easily anywhere else in the world as it could be fulfilled… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
