In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to… — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed?… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I do not imply that in the U.S plants, industrial plants, are places of exploitation where man is oppressed. 1 know that… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“Moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand and struggle side by side… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost… — John McCain Copy Share Image
When the sage stands above people, they are not oppressed. When he leads people, they are not obstructed. The world will exalt… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I have been merely oppressed by the weariness and tedium and vanity of things lately: nothing stirs me, nothing seems worth doing… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
No civilization can exist part free and part slave. ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
Shopping as lifestyle is really a sub-cultural problem. When the strictures that set you apart or oppressed you, disappear, is there a… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Autocracy cannot do without its twin agents: a hangman and a priest, the first to suppress popular resistance by force, the second… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“We must side with the oppressed on every occasion, even when they are in the wrong, though without losing sight of the… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have always thought it was a terrible shame that the women's movement didn't realise how much easier it was to reach… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. So as a prelude whites must be made to… — Steve Biko Copy Share Image
I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
For a political movement to not understand that sexuality is a profound component of both how people are oppressed and how people… — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the… — Armistead Maupin 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
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Going to any place that you view as more politically oppressed than your own country, there's a weird tendency to assume that… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
In order for the oppressed to unite they must first cut the umbilical cord of magic and myth which binds them to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,… — Bible Copy Share Image
America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes,… — Ronald Reagan 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
If women are being oppressed in Egypt or children are being forced to join armies in the Congo, for example, it is… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
