The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are… — Marilyn Frye 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
It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that… — Elie Wiesel 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
New Labour has created a society increasingly oppressed by the worry of personal debt. — John McDonnell 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
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves... — Paulo Freire 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
Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of… — Robin Morgan 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
The only thing worse than an oppressed liberal is the Rino Republican who sympathizes with them. — Josh Bernstein Copy Share Image
A married guy is responsible for everything, no matter what. Women, thanks to their having been oppressed all these years, are blameless,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I will continue - as Labour Leader - to pursue the causes of peace and justice in Israel-Palestine, the wider Middle East… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world.… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“The oppressed, as objects, as "things", have no purposes except those their oppressors prescribe for them.” — Paulo Freire 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
