I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression…

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever…

— John Grierson

The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when…

— Elgin Groseclose

Every relationship of domination, of exploitation, of oppression is by definition violent, whether or not the violence is expressed by drastic means. In such…

— Paulo Freire

Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the…

— Rudolf Rocker

Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment…

— J. Stalin

Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression in the…

— Bell Hooks

Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the language in…

— Herbert Marcuse

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It…

— Pope Francis

Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to be male.…

— Marilyn Frye

The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they…

— H. L. Mencken

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with…

— Cornel West

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

— Herbert Marcuse

I advocate revolutionary changes...an end to capitalist exploitation, the abolition of racist policies, the eradication of sexism and the elimination of political repression. If…

— Assata Shakur

Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.

— Assata Shakur

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.

— Assata Shakur