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
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
The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I have always and will always stand on behalf of justice and do not condone oppression in any form. — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
For a girl, appearance can be a powerful form of oppression. No matter how intelligent a girl may be, no matter her… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
“Hatred of oppression still distorts the features, Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly. Oh we, who wished to lay… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And if there is no objective or universal truth, then any claim to have objective truth will be treated as nothing but… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish.… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Puerto Ricans are Americans. We've been American citizens since 1917. We fought the same battles, made the same sacrifices. We've lost our… — Nelson Antonio Denis Copy Share Image
“At first glance it seems strange that the attitude of the anti-Semite can be equated with that of the negrophobe. It was… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes… In mid-nineteenth-… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
“Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I'll call mine Yarvard. Even though she cannot attend Yarvard because… — Rosemarie Garland Thomson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people call my way of speaking ranting. Why are you always ranting and screaming, they ask. But here’s the thing…the reason… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
“As long as we continue to search for enemies anywhere but inside ourselves, there will always be a Middle East problem. Religion… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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
This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
If anything like #MeToo happens, women can come to MNS. We will teach a lesson to accused. Women must raise the voice… — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars… — William Penn Copy Share Image
The oppression is like nothing imaginable - I literally believed that Kim Jong-il could read my mind. — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse… — Carre Otis Copy Share Image
When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
