Equality has long been the end goal of historically oppressed populations in the United States. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Party anthems and party things aren't what people need when they're the most oppressed. — Bushwick Bill Copy Share Image
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance! — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed. — Remi Kanazi Copy Share Image
What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - believed… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“It is appropriate that we celebrate Martin Luther King, a man who struggled so valiantly to restore humanity to the oppressed and… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must… — Robert Mugabe Copy Share Image
The eternal destiny of human beings will be measured by how much or how little solidarity we have displayed with the hungry,… — Leonardo Boff Copy Share Image
You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am… — Jupiter Hammon Copy Share Image
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
“And those who flee for Allah's sake after they are oppressed, We shall certainly give them a good abode in the world;… — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
“The more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon than… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No guarantees come with children's liberation. But neither the promise of great benefits to all nor the prediction of great difficulties ahead… — Richard Farson Copy Share Image
Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Because Ajamu Baraka speaks in the language of his community, and makes no bones about it, he really invites in a whole… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
I supported the right of oppressed people to armed struggle. That didn't mean I did it. — Susan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
It's not my job to produce results. But it is my job to lay my hands on the sick, the oppressed, and… — Todd Bentley Copy Share Image
It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blessed, beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed. — John Mason Neale Copy Share Image
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
White women are themselves oppressed and that they would therefore be able to align themselves with other oppressed people. — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I share the concerns around the world about everything from a lack of opportunity to groups of people being oppressed. — Emma Hayes Copy Share Image
“Come see the violence inherit in the system!! Help Help I'm being oppressed!!” — Monty Python and the Holy Grail Copy Share Image
“As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We need a broad commitment to human rights across the board. We cannot attain that simply by protecting one oppressed group or… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
