I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The racism is so profound and the recognition - the kind of deep recognition that you have to humiliate. It's not about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I think history repeats itself. There's a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether… — Michael B. Jordan Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent,… — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and… — Yahoo Serious Copy Share Image
“And I — my head oppressed by horror — said: "Master, what is it that I hear? Who are those people so… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Some people," Aunt Emily answered sharply, "are so busy seeing all sides of every issue that they neutralize concern and prevent necessary… — Joy Kogawa Copy Share Image
This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You should desire for others what you desire for yourself, and hate for others what you hate for yourself. Do not oppress,… — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, “What's your alternative?” But even if you could provide the interrogator with a blueprint,… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
All third world literature is about nation, that identity is the fundamental literary problem in the third world. The writer's identity is… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at… — Ronald J. Sider Copy Share Image
“The oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
When it's played the way is supposed to be played, basketball happens in the air; flying, floating, elevated above the floor, levitating… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
“A society concerned with shalom will care for the most marginalized among them. God has a special concern for the poor and… — Randy S. Woodley 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
Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Oxfam is part of a global movement for social justice. We mainly work to fight for economic and social rights for people… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and… — S. Ansky Copy Share Image
Listen, here's reality. It is completely unfair and absolutely necessary that people who have been oppressed and marginalized have to lead everybody.… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
