Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression,… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom.… — Michael Flatley Copy Share Image
In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If we're saying there are incidents of oppression in this country, systematically or individually in this country, I don't think saying, 'Well,… — Chris Long Copy Share Image
Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Contemplation is a very dangerous activity. It not only brings us face to face with God. It brings us, as well, face… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“Wananchi wanapokosa huduma za muhimu za kijamii (kama vile afya, elimu, chakula, malazi, na ulinzi) ilhali wanalipa kodi, na wameajiri serikali kuwaendeshea… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
“In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
Giving primacy to God means having the courage to say ‘no’ to evil, ‘no’ to violence, ‘no’ to oppression, to live a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We of course have our problems, to say the least, in comportment towards ourselves and our environment, but admittance to the cosmos… — Paul Levinson Copy Share Image
There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Spiritual models for me are the communities of Tibetans living in exile in India, or the banjars of Bali, which exist in… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on colour but on commitment to the total abolition of apartheid and… — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I didn't know enough about the Civil War or its lingering effects as we all should. It's really easy to think that… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
For those of us in the opposition movement under dictatorships, part of our job is confronting police and spending time in prison.… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When I look at people talking about intersectionality, what I see is the human being magnifying a biological attribute, and then putting… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by… — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while,… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been… — Patricia Deegan Copy Share Image
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities,… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
When the residue of oppression and fear are compounded over time, when the historical precedents of policing and discrimination manifest themselves over… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
The globalisation of information makes people aware of what they have - and have not. Problems and oppression are impossible to hide,… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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