Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression…

“What writer Audre Lorde says to black men and women is true for all of us: "If we do not define ourselves, we will…

— Pat Mora

...religion is a tool to bind people together, to strengthen their unity, but like every tool, it can be mismanaged, even used in opposition…

— Deepak Chopra

Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving…

— Hanan Ashrawi

“Religion, which was obviously created to give meaning and purpose to people, has become part of the oppression. This is true in both Eastern…

— Noah Levine

That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the…

— Hall Caine

Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is…

— Taslima Nasrin

In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time,…

— Sheila Rowbotham

The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have…

— Robert Briffault

The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows…

— Andrea Dworkin

Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in…

— Tim Wise

I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what…

— Marwan Barghouti

The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to…

— Sheila Rowbotham

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

— Malcolm X

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

— Nancy Mairs

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle…

— Shulamith Firestone