... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
Choosing our own aims and seeking to bring them to fruition creates a sense of vitality and motivation in life. The only… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Hence, when some members of the Iranian diaspora, especially women at the moment, use different tropes including the trope of the veil… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
“To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the… — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion. — Anne Nicol Gaylor Copy Share Image
There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“If oppression produced saints, we’d want everyone to be oppressed.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity. — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
When Colin Kaepernick first took a knee, he took it, and he identified police brutality, aggressive policing techniques, he broadened it to… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. — Thomas Jefferson 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
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
...all human beings have a right, and duty, to be joyful. Anything that thwarts this spiritual human right goes against the very… — Agnivesh Copy Share Image
I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are… — Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Copy Share Image
