The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it’s becoming an oppressor, — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity. — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“The oppressed, as objects, as "things", have no purposes except those their oppressors prescribe for them.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
If you advise someone on the condition that they have to accept it, then you are an oppressor. — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“This violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for,… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and… — Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Copy Share Image
But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment - to love God first - nor is it clear that I… — Sheldon Vanauken 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
The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly.… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
What we consider is that the Venezuelan government is not a leftist government, has nothing of a leftist government. It is an… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
When someone hurts you or harms you, even if it is a deep wound, forgive them. Forgive them NOT for their sake,… — Suhaib Webb Copy Share Image
It happens every millennium. Now more than ever, man threatens to destroy himself with his own technology, and all the ideas contained… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it… — Abraham Lincoln 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
This oppressor/oppressed cultural Marxist thing is you're an authentic woman and an authentic black even only if you support liberal causes. If… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland.… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image