“Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is… — Suzy Kassem 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
“Oppression is built on a series of assumptions, and if they begin to crumble, the system is in grave danger. The assumptions… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
Look at the people who are kind of the funniest cultures, they're the cultures of the people who have been the most… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
Regardless of what the law or your teachers have to say about this, you are as human as anyone over the age… — Grace Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them... If the sage would guide the people, he… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly.… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter… — Chiang Kai-shek 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
A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“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
We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There were many Americans in the Revolutionary era who believed that they, like the children of Israel, were oppressed by their colonial… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Ironically, when I've asked my straight friends to join me in hanging a rainbow flag, they answer, 'But someone might think we're… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book for the Nelson Mandela's of our communities who are willing to stand up for change and people who… — Sahndra Fon Dufe Copy Share Image
No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for,… — Peter Benchley 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 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
I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
“He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, s yet he opened not his mouth; t like a u lamb that is led to the slaughter,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that tell us we must be committed to protecting the poor and the oppressed... There is… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens… — Aly Khan 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
“No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
“It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I would wish… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “emergency situation” in which we live is the rule. We must arrive at… — Walter Benjamin 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
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
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