It's different everywhere you go. I'm lucky I'm drawn into people who love and support me. I'm sheltered from that life. I… — Nomi Ruiz Copy Share Image
“Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is… — Kenny Marchant Copy Share Image
An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that.… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
“Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is… — Golda Poretsky Copy Share Image
The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The central question is not: what is force and what is freedom? That is a good question, but in the realm of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:] It is true… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
Our strategy is how we cope--how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done… — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating… — Marwan Barghouti Copy Share Image
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Wealth is attended with power, by which bargains and proceedings, contrary to universal righteousness, are supported; and hence oppression, carried on with… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
From my membership in all of these groups I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“If we have learned anything from the liberation movements, we should have learned how difficult it is to be aware of the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“Equality of condition and equality of opportunity must provide the foundation of an interdependent nation with building blocks found in dignity and… — Julie Banks Lewis Copy Share Image
“In a system of intimidation and control, people do not show how much they know, how deeply they feel, until their practical… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Out of the mists of our long oppression, / We bring love for ourselves and each other, / And love for the… — Harry Hay Copy Share Image
The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In… — Arthur Melvin Okun Copy Share Image
I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The serious work for feminism in the 21st century is across the globe. Instead of retreating into "safe spaces" and focusing on… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“ http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&am... The proper criterion for distinguishing "right" from "wrong" is not mysterious.It is embodied in the principles that advance the cause… — Dhoruba Bin Wahad Copy Share Image
This is historically what happens whenever revolutionaries begin to take the oppression and suffering of their fellow beings seriously, whether human or… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
“Like all persecuted minority groups, they strike back by forming cabals, by “taking over” certain spheres of activity (in the arts, for… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
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