I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.” — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Sex, like color, is a meaningless criterion and an oppression criterion when it is made a condition for a job,” — Lynn Povich Copy Share Image
What we once thought of as necessary and proper reasons for ostracizing and marginalizing gay people, we now understand do not justify… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, thats just what Ill do. Its this kind of regard for… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In a system of intimidation and control, people do not show how much they know, how deeply they feel, until their practical… — Howard Zinn 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
“If we have learned anything from the liberation movements, we should have learned how difficult it is to be aware of the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
From my membership in all of these groups I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Wealth is attended with power, by which bargains and proceedings, contrary to universal righteousness, are supported; and hence oppression, carried on with… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Social ecology is based on the conviction that nearly all of our present ecological problems originate in deep-seated social problems. It follows,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
The antagonism between nationalities will lose all its acuteness on the day when neither the iniquitous tendency to oppression and domination, nor… — African Spir Copy Share Image
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“James Madison framed the constitutional order so that power would be in the hands of the Senate, which represents “the wealth of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There are some groups that for years and years have not gotten the rights that the majority of human beings have, and… — Janelle Monae 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
History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Oppression is allowed to survive because people don't like to talk about it or about acts like what happened. We're hoping to… — Tim Gordon Copy Share Image
Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them'; — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner. — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
