The degradation, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe. They are greater than you… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of… — William Morris Copy Share Image
Instead, we have found ourselves gasping for air in a sea of corruption, dysfunction, environmental degradation, waste, disenchantment and inequality—and the harder… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
Understanding what is going on in the world today inspires me in a negative sense because there's so much about it that… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of… — Harriot Kezia Hunt Copy Share Image
We must begin by acknowledging that there is a complete absence of two things in Indian Society. One of these is equality.… — B. R. Ambedkar Copy Share Image
We should know that Allah has created us to live an eternal life with no death, a life of pride and ease… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Copy Share Image
When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what… — John Milton Copy Share Image
For both of us, I think, it had to do with our weakened power to love. It is strange that enslavement should… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe &… — Mark Twain 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
God,' she cried, 'what is love? Man seeking his own head? The human head, so rented by misery that even the teeth… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from… — Paul Lafargue Copy Share Image
In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
It saddens me to see the reality-television shows that are getting so much fanfare that are a celebration of stupidity and the… — Prabal Gurung Copy Share Image
To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
... while in theory digital technology entails the flawless replication of data, its actual use in contemporary society is characterized by the… — Lev Manovich Copy Share Image
Whenever you see want or misery or degradation in this world about you, then be sure either industry has been wanting, or… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act of 2004 helps address the continuing degradation on the broadcast airwaves and helps send a clear message… — Mike Rogers Copy Share Image
Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in...We should be thankful we cannot see… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
In this hope, among the things we teach to the young are such truths as the transcendent value of the individual and… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more… — Bill Clinton Copy Share Image
For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety,… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
I'm no expert on pornography. The core element of it, I think, is degradation of women, whatever else goes on. I don't… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility. — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor… — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
When a religion or ideology becomes dominant, the lack of controls will result in widening spirals of license leading to degradation and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
