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
It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power - power to oppress others. The… — Eric Hoffer 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
Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to… — Martin Luther 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
“we don’t even know what living means now, what it is, and what it is called? Leave us alone without books and… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may… — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I believe scripture is not just resilient but rebellious against its abuse by people. Scripture says it refuses to be used in… — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
I seem indeed to hear that voice, from Him Who gathers together those who are broken, and welcomes the oppressed: I have… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There was a thrust to raise the consciousness of the people and we argued that in order to free ourselves we must… — Maulana Karenga Copy Share Image
How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
North Koreans are tragically oppressed. Despite the risks to my personal safety, I feel a strong obligation to tell the world about… — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that… — Barbara Smith Copy Share Image
Praise the Lord, my soul, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. The… — David Copy Share Image
I have made some enemies. My enemies in the southern states consisted of those who oppressed the black slave. My enemies in… — Albert Parsons Copy Share Image
Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know… — Pancho Villa Copy Share Image
Oppressed persons, oppressed cultures, tend to be more political, obviously, as are those with a rage for justice, or the crazy messianic… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
“In oppressing, one becomes oppressed. Men are enchained by reason of their very sovereignty; it is because they alone earn money that… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution of the United States there is on the earth. In my feelings I am… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The poor are always prophetic. As true prophets always point out, they reveal God's design. That is why we should take time… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
Having expressed the rage against the laws and conditions that oppressed them - maybe even excess anger in the beginning was directed… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
But this inestimable privilege was soon violated: with the knowledge of truth the emperor imbibed the maxims of persecution; and the sects… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
