Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
“We who are oppressed love those who fight against oppression.” — Louis Farrakhan Muhammad Sr Copy Share Image
The Khodorkovsky case is typical of the "oprichnina" - the system of oppression. — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
“One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to look vertically upwards” — Oche Otorkpa Copy Share Image
But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity. — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
“It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual… — Albert Memmi Copy Share Image
“The so-called what they called "illiterate" people would not remain oppressed forever. The desire for liberation will, indeed, someday manifests itself.” — Henry Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It's almost impossible to separate the actions, or it's also, it's almost impossible to separate the oppression and exploitation, criminal oppression and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“This is how we are being governed right now, people. Six conservative justices. They're just doing what they want. And what they… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance of… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
“Here’s the thing about oppression: It’s rarely the result of one person’s actions and often it’s not even intentional. As philosopher Carol… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
“The concept of fourth-generation wars simply refers to the use of disinformation, funding subversive N.G.O.s, and spreading rumours as a method for… — Maged Mandour Copy Share Image
“Fear (...) that has no relation to capabilities or even to reality is epidemic among women today. Fear of being independent (that… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
“If oppression produced saints, we’d want everyone to be oppressed.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Let them shoot us in the head, My blood will grow roots and will blossom.” — Visar Zhiti Copy Share Image
The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
“Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
