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
If women are being oppressed in Egypt or children are being forced to join armies in the Congo, for example, it is… — Stephen Kinzer 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
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
Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature… — Maximilien Robespierre 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
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
Going to any place that you view as more politically oppressed than your own country, there's a weird tendency to assume that… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. So as a prelude whites must be made to… — Steve Biko Copy Share Image
I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach… — Nora Ephron 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
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
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
