When the sage stands above people, they are not oppressed. When he leads people, they are not obstructed. The world will exalt… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed?… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do not imply that in the U.S plants, industrial plants, are places of exploitation where man is oppressed. 1 know that… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I want my children - I want Malia and Sasha - to understand that they've got responsibilities beyond just what they themselves… — Barack Obama 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
“Can you see the pictures before you on how to intervene on behalf of the oppressed? Are you thinking of what to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Called to the throne of my fathers, I have taken over the government, looking to the King of all kings, and have… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for… — Martin McGuinness 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
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
In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to… — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
“Yet, feeling his way, starting by the passive opposition of small thefts, stealing sausage ends and crusts of bread when Signora Squeers… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
In a life where you are oppressed and not listened to, and told to sit in the corner and shut up, which… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
At the end of the day it doesn't matter which group is most oppressed or whether they are identically oppressed, what matters… — Keith Boykin Copy Share Image
O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Muslims, scholars or not, are on the side of the oppressed and never on the side of the oppressors. Some scholars claim… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,… — Bible Copy Share Image
For a political movement to not understand that sexuality is a profound component of both how people are oppressed and how people… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I think the reason why people love 'Downton Abbey' is because all the characters are given the same weight. Some are nice,… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor.… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
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