The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had… — Horace Copy Share Image
The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
We're oppressed, I think, you know there's only 5 per cent of the world's population who are ginger? So it's a tough… — Sean Dyche Copy Share Image
“Fear not the might of the oppressor, but rather, complacency in the hearts of the oppressed.” — Isiah Strong Copy Share Image
“Like any oppressed people, they defined themselves by what offended them, which” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed” — Steve Biko Copy Share Image
Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression… — Paulo Freire 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
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
The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy… — Ulysses S. Grant 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
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
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
In 'The Hunger Games,' in most people's idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situation, that would meet the criteria for… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“To me, the ideological high wire is for fools to balance on with their illusions. It is better to leap into the… — Ai 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
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
The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In the hands of [God's] children, it is food for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, raiment for the naked. it gives… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
Under extremely difficult circumstances (Iraq) pursues the inherently complicated task of rebuilding the country. Yet Iraq continues, courageously, to reach for the… — Jalal Talabani Copy Share Image
“What else must we do and say? What else must the oppressed do for a taste of freedom?” — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
When things go wrong just say.. I'm not impressed!! When you're not impressed you won't be oppressed or depressed!! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” — Stephen Bantu Biko Copy Share Image
And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in whi ch we live is not the exception but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“For the oppressors..to 'be' is to have and to be the class of the "haves".” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 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
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 stark nakedness and simplicity of the conflict with which humanity is oppressed - that of getting angry with and wishing to… — John Bowlby Copy Share Image
I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others… — John Brown Copy Share Image
“There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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![“I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed [to deny others their rights or liberty] by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.” quote by John Brown](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0b/john-brown-15897_deny_i-want-you-to-understand-that-i-respect_2400722.jpg)
