“How is it called freedom if it is limited by those with a history of oppressing you?” — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor. — Lerone Bennett, Jr Copy Share Image
Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society. — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Oppression is the seed of power; you will plant it against yourself” — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy. — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Being black in America - especially as I was growing up - the feeling of oppression, the feeling of being outcast, the… — Rza Copy Share Image
“Now I understand why women want to have children - it's simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fill… — Nina Lugovskaya Copy Share Image
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other? — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
“Generational oppression begins when what is meant to be transferred to one offspring has been taken over by reason of oppression.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
No guarantees come with children's liberation. But neither the promise of great benefits to all nor the prediction of great difficulties ahead… — Richard Farson Copy Share Image
To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Through my school years, I learned more about slavery, anti-black racism, and oppression in the U.S., and my blackness could no longer… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the… — John Green Copy Share Image
Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “emergency situation” in which we live is the rule. We must arrive at… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“To be a liberal is to care about more than one’s own belly or roof. It is to care about the rights… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
“What I’m talking about is the order of chosen men who inherit power. From Pharaohs and kings to bankers and executives. Their… — Nick Drnaso Copy Share Image
The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest,… — Helen Keller 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
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
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
“After all, the task of the humanists is surely not that of pitting their slogans against the slogans of the oppressors, with… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression. — Thomas Tryon Copy Share Image
“It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.” — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A private faith that does not act in the face of oppression is no faith at all. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
