“Politics don’t begin in Washington. Politics begin with those who are oppressed right here.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor. — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
If America oppresses, why do so many people risk their lives coming here to be oppressed? — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed. — Colin Kaepernick Copy Share Image
I know books that are really good and writers that are really good and they have become oppressed and ground down from… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
Everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Jon Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are… — Rick Sanchez Copy Share Image
Real Jews, in concord with some Muslims, continue their war against Zionists and against Israeli crimes. The oppressed people of Palestine living… — Maurice Motamed Copy Share Image
Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not… — Sean Wilentz Copy Share Image
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business,… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I've already got the Kingdom of Heaven in my heart! That's my nationality, my citizenship, my Country!-A Country that's never persecuted the… — David Berg Copy Share Image
America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring… — George Will Copy Share Image
Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I… — Epicurus 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
If you have a more oppressed Internet, you have a more oppressed society. — Peter Sunde Copy Share Image
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than an oppressed liberal is the Rino Republican who sympathizes with them. — Josh Bernstein Copy Share Image
I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to… — Common Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a fire, warming the hearts of the oppressed. It can spread, or be snuffed out, but only you can decide.” — Zachary Koukol Copy Share Image
The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the… — Martin Delany Copy Share Image
The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation. — Mahmud Tarzi 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
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn. — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
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