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
I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what… — Simone Weil 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
A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
It seems that when we are oppressed by the knowledge of our worthlessness we do not see ourselves as lower than some… — Eric Hoffer 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
I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food. So I wanted to create a sitcom and… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
It is said that this is a man's world, and sometimes, it is. For every casket girl that was saved, countless others… — Rebecca Copy Share Image
“Oppression Olympics is what smart liberal Americans say to make you feel stupid and to make you shut up. But there IS… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring… — George Will Copy Share Image
I've already got the Kingdom of Heaven in my heart! That's my nationality, my citizenship, my Country!-A Country that's never persecuted the… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
The process of liberation brings with it a profound conflict. Having the project be clear is not enough. What is necessary is… — Leonardo Boff Copy Share Image
American Muslims - young American Muslims in particular - are starting to understand that unless they are willing to stand up for… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all… — George Washington Copy Share Image
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
“Oppressed with countless little daily cares, he had waited... For an act. A free, considered act; that should pledge his whole life,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“History matters, not because it repeats itself (which it never does), but because its narration can rid demons that torment the oppressed,… — Seth Garfield Copy Share Image
We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran.… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
So I'm very happy if my words can ever inspire or empower someone who considers themselves an oppressed minority. We are all… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so manipulated and… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“The story of the many oppressed peoples of the world is rarely recorded by the few who oppress. We are taught that… — Dahr Jamail Copy Share Image
Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
Feminists have convinced themselves that any difference between men and women is oppression and that women in the United States are an… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
