Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. — Simone Weil 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
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as… — Seyla Benhabib Copy Share Image
“Equality of condition and equality of opportunity must provide the foundation of an interdependent nation with building blocks found in dignity and… — Julie Banks Lewis 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
Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
Why can't we have a voice? What's the difference between an athlete having millions or Donald Trump? Every time a politician talks,… — Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf Copy Share Image
I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization.… — John Stott Copy Share Image
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pcanet, and other powerful tribes of our people? They have… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The only limit to the oppression of government is the power with which the people show themselves capable of opposing it. — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
“Unless institutional power reinforces the hurt and prejudice suffered by a group, it is not oppression. By definition, a person of color… — Linda Stout Copy Share Image
Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It won't ruin our movement if someone gets killed in an animal rights action. It's going to happen sooner or later. The… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be… — Judi Bari Copy Share Image
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating… — Marwan Barghouti Copy Share Image
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