Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It is said that this is a man's world, and sometimes, it is. For every casket girl that was saved, countless others… — Rebecca Copy Share Image
“The oppressed, who lives without wisdom will never be liberated.” — Henry Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Music has as many roles as people make it. I traveled to Burma once years ago to witness the people's struggle for… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
The character of the tribunes was, in every respect, different from that of the consuls. The appearance of the former was modest… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it. It was a force for siding with the oppressed and… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
Muslims, scholars or not, are on the side of the oppressed and never on the side of the oppressors. Some scholars claim… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of… — Hélder Câmara Copy Share Image
So what you do [under apartheid system] is you convince black people that the reason they are being oppressed is because there… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave… — John Brown Copy Share Image
It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of… — Warren Farrell 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
I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What… — Epictetus 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