When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not… — Herbie Hancock 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
The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
The United States has already passed on as the world's economic leader. Having flouted Thomas Jefferson for too long, America has succumbed… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
Anything that you are achieving that undermines and threatens systems of power will meet with oppression. Systems of power don't say 'thank… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Through its appropriation of "texts of terror" and especially through the application of those texts to the Jews, the Christian religion created… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them. — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol… — Queen Rania of Jordan Copy Share Image
“When we take your person into account, you who are a young maiden, to whom God gives the strength and power to… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression. — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
“Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“[1916] The IWW’s involvement in the [Minnesota] Iron Range’s labor unrest led mine company owners to take extreme actions and, just as… — Jane Little Botkin Copy Share Image
There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When there is oppression, the only self-respecting thing is to rise and say this shall cease today, because my right is justice.… — Sarojini Naidu Copy Share Image
I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Racism has two primary functions: the oppression of people of color, which most people recognize, but also the simultaneous elevation of white… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“As a young woman, when she had been beautiful and had worn her hair short and her clothes loose to conceal that… — Kij Johnson Copy Share Image
Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression… — Robert Cray Copy Share Image
