“No matter how primitive a community is, it is against any type of oppression.” — Suwardi Surjaningrat Copy Share Image
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
These my two hands / quick to slap my face / before others could slap it. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
“The oppressed are sometimes the most rabid of oppressors" (119).” — Elizabeth Nunez Copy Share Image
“The greatest weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” — Steve Biko Copy Share Image
Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves. — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
“Sign of an abusive system: getting angry at other's real needs.” — Jeff VanVonderen Copy Share Image
I think up to the 1990s, there were a lot of political commentaries in our films... on oppression and women empowerment. — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
“The oppressed, as objects, as "things", have no purposes except those their oppressors prescribe for them.” — Paulo Freire 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
“All my contemporaries— hundred-and-fivers or convicts— will tell you how we lived in barely sentient fear, raising children for the executioner, prison,… — Anna Akhmatova 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
“In 1969, University of Chicago sociology professor Marlene Dixon wrote that “the institution of marriage is the chief vehicle for the perpetuation… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“No badge can baptize brutality, no holy water can bleach blood stains – the land remembers the salt of tears of every… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that.… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is… — Kenny Marchant Copy Share Image
An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
It's different everywhere you go. I'm lucky I'm drawn into people who love and support me. I'm sheltered from that life. I… — Nomi Ruiz Copy Share Image
The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity,… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“Often black people, especially non-gay folk, become enraged when they hear a white person who is gay suggest homosexuality is synonymous with… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The wall rose high above us in the night, illimitable and fearsome. If we could just get across it, then we would… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
“When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to… — Jordan Peele Copy Share Image
The function of a bourgeois democracy is to secure the consent of the masses to their own exploitation and oppression. — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The ease with which money forgives bayonets and lies to justify the massacre with reasoned arguments” — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for. — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image