The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways: 1st - When they are neglected in infancy 2nd -… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, I have always supported the human being in his humanism and I have supported the oppressed. I think it… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
I've spent fifteen years of my life fighting for our right to be free and make love whenever, wherever... And you're telling… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
The Bible has been the Magna Charta of the poor and of the oppressed. — Thomas Huxley 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 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
When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
“For your Jesus said you're supposed to give the oppressed a better deal” — Kev Carmody Copy Share Image
To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life. — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Very powerless people [snickers] He's such a minority, I mean, you know Please, what are you kidding? I'm telling you that everybody… — Rick Sanchez Copy Share Image
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As a woman and as a feminist, I am very well aware of how women have been oppressed and segregated for a… — Jacques Myard Copy Share Image
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition… — Karl Marx 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
When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire… — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on… — W. Kamau Bell 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