This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
Oppression is not limited to people of color, but if you feel guilty that's something you should confront. — Misha Green Copy Share Image
I wish I was a mirror, that every rude thing done to me or every careless word I hear would just bounce… — Meow Opre Copy Share Image
Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression — Sheila Jeffrys Copy Share Image
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the industry I work in, women have had a lot of oppression. So, I don't like to stick to the status… — Leah Williamson Copy Share Image
Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The harsh fact of the matter is that this nation has not remotely come to grips with how many of its laws… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
Even before 'Pose,' I was involved in activism and advocating for my community in various ways. I didn't see that stopping with… — Indya Moore Copy Share Image
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“There’s a general sense now that children’s rights, children’s needs, children’s wants and desires have taken on too prominent a place in… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
It is my belief that in our mad world where there is so much pain, rivalry, hatred, violence, inequality, and oppression, it… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without… — Benjamin Harvey Hill Copy Share Image
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Look, people need to conform the external reality they face daily with this subjective feeling they likewise experience constantly. To do this… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Just because our world is wrong doesn’t mean people don’t enjoy the binds which are holding them in. At least their binds… — Rebecca Crunden Copy Share Image
“As I'd seen over and again, people who see themselves as victims sometimes don't notice when they become oppressors.” — Souad Mekhennet Copy Share Image
In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
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
“...from the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement?” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country. — Kerby Jean-Raymond Copy Share Image
“They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
If there was an Oppression Olympics, I would win the gold medal. I'm Palestinian, Muslim, I'm female, I'm disabled, and I live… — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South. — Clarice Taylor Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
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