I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation. — Mahmud Tarzi Copy Share Image
Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
There'll be no more big powers and oppressed poor - only fairness and justice for all, and eternal happiness. So if you're… — David Berg Copy Share Image
I guess that is the strange part of the human brain that people have studied for eons - is hatred and self-hatred.… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants. — Julien Green Copy Share Image
In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted,… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions,… — Polybius Copy Share Image
It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating… — Marwan Barghouti Copy Share Image
Everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Jon Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are… — Rick Sanchez Copy Share Image
Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues,… — Tim Wise 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
I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer.… — Tayari Jones Copy Share Image
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image