The pacifist thinks that the alternative to war is peace; it is not. Sometimes the alternative is oppression. Sometimes certain God-given rights… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
When you finally embrace the gift of your sexual orientation it IS the end; the end of shame, fear and oppression. You… — Anthony Venn-Brown Copy Share Image
The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Women hating men is not an aberrant or unexpected response, but rather natural response to being controlled, and to being viewed as… — Coleen Kearon Copy Share Image
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression — Mohammad Khatami Copy Share Image
It is not enough to call yourself a feminist because you are a strong woman. Thatcher was an enemy to feminism, as… — Julie Bindel 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
Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you… — Wei Jingsheng Copy Share Image
Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment,… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
At times I feel it almost impossible not to despond entirely of there ever being a better, brighter day for us. None… — Charlotte Forten Grimke Copy Share Image
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're used to saying that women in other cultures are oppressed, but the question that I had when making the film was:… — Maimouna Doucoure Copy Share Image
