To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The U.S.S.R. was a totalitarian state in which judges and prosecutors were controlled by the ruling party. The result was injustice, oppression… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“To give a thing to one who is not fit for it and not to give a thing to one who is… — Imam Al-Ghazali Copy Share Image
Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
Guerrilla warfare is used by the side which is supported by a majority but which possesses a much smaller number of arms… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“Oppression is hardball. Though the range can vary, oppression is the closest Satan or his demons can get to a believer.” — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
“The great and the mighty that use their assets and power to subjugate people are demonstrating oppression.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression. — Halima Aden Copy Share Image
Here in the US, we've built this insane infrastructure of oppression. When it's not run by a Barack Obama - who, by… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Traditionally Marxism attracts the oppressed. This, however, is not the case in the Arab nation... The socialist programs in Arab history did… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“When people are kept in abject poverty and illiteracy while others grow rich and “develop their personalities” at the former’s expense we… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“It’s not that men and women are identical; it’s just that they are so near identical in all but the political abuses… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be… — Judi Bari Copy Share Image
Of course, I could never suggest that only poor people are misogynistic; too many rich folk are just as hateful of women… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
“Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.” — DaShanne Stokes 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
One of the hardest things to do, is control someone. One of the worst things, is succeeding at it. — Tyler Bowen Copy Share Image
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects… — Confucius Copy Share Image
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is… — Max Weber 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
“Do not waste your anger, you may just be the candidate to deliver a people from oppression or injustice.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
What's unique about America is that the country itself was built upon oppression, it's in the very foundation. — Jodie Turner-Smith Copy Share Image
The emerging picture is one where slavery, oppression and exploitation of society's most vulnerable members have by no means been consigned to… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred. — Bram Fischer Copy Share Image
People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American. — Rich Lowry Copy Share Image
Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
