Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Jesus is the starving, the parched, the prisoner, the stranger, the naked, the sick, the dying. Jesus is the oppressed, the poor.… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to… — Hall Caine Copy Share Image
Feminists have convinced themselves that any difference between men and women is oppression and that women in the United States are an… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
The whole class system has oppressed so many people and given them such lack of opportunity. They are fed such strong narratives… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
The poetics of the oppressed is essentially the poetics of liberation: the spectator no longer delegates power to the characters either to… — Augusto Boal Copy Share Image
I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The working classes may be injuriously degraded and oppressed in three ways: 1st - When they are neglected in infancy 2nd -… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Marcos is all the exploited, marginalised, oppressed minorities resisting and saying "Enough!" He is every minority who is now beginning to speak… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
It is not the responsibility of knights errant to discover whether the afflicted, the enchained and the oppressed whom they encounter on… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I would like to address the peoples of the world, especially the Arab peoples and the US people. Their silence over the… — Muqtada al Sadr Copy Share Image
The object of a dialogical-liberterian action is not to 'dislodge' the oppressed from a mythological reality in order to 'bind' them to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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
May our land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and a praise… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
So I'm very happy if my words can ever inspire or empower someone who considers themselves an oppressed minority. We are all… — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran.… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one's mind is so manipulated and… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“The story of the many oppressed peoples of the world is rarely recorded by the few who oppress. We are taught that… — Dahr Jamail Copy Share Image
Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“History matters, not because it repeats itself (which it never does), but because its narration can rid demons that torment the oppressed,… — Seth Garfield Copy Share Image
Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
American Muslims - young American Muslims in particular - are starting to understand that unless they are willing to stand up for… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Oppressed with countless little daily cares, he had waited... For an act. A free, considered act; that should pledge his whole life,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I guess that is the strange part of the human brain that people have studied for eons - is hatred and self-hatred.… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Yet, feeling his way, starting by the passive opposition of small thefts, stealing sausage ends and crusts of bread when Signora Squeers… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
![“I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d1/abraham-lincoln-88_ambition_i-affect-no-contempt-for-the-high-eminen_2296058.png)
