In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants… — Phillis Wheatley Copy Share Image
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“If that's the case, waiter, please bring me another piece of cake," Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table, "I'm… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same… — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past. — Malachy McCourt 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
Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
This is historically what happens whenever revolutionaries begin to take the oppression and suffering of their fellow beings seriously, whether human or… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
“Like all persecuted minority groups, they strike back by forming cabals, by “taking over” certain spheres of activity (in the arts, for… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“ http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&am... The proper criterion for distinguishing "right" from "wrong" is not mysterious.It is embodied in the principles that advance the cause… — Dhoruba Bin Wahad Copy Share Image
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The Constitutional framers were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did… — Frederick Douglass 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
When I looked into the story of Soviet hockey and its players, I realized that it has nothing to do with hockey.… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
It is strange that a person may find it easy to protect himself from: eating Haraam, oppression and injustice, adultery, theft, drinking… — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I don't want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy,… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
“(advice to his children) Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name,… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
In Venezuela, we either accept domination, total oppression and torture... from Maduro's regime, or we choose freedom, democracy, and prosperity for our… — Juan Guaido Copy Share Image
“When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Speak the truth get shot, fight the truth you will find chaos and oppression. Preach love be bullied. The abnormality of the… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Until women assume their rightful place on earth there will never be an end to wars, cruelty and oppression. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred. — Bram Fischer Copy Share Image
