If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds. — Tatyana Tolstaya Copy Share Image
I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“But for a society buit on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression. — Che Guevara 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
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
I know she [Hillary Clinton] comes out of a legacy with her husband in which the Democratic Party did more, it seems… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Opting for peace does not mean a passive acquiescence to evil or compromise of principle. It demands an active struggle against hatred,… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
“By saying that human issues are more important than non-human issues, that violence to humans is more relevant than violence to animals,… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
“On Lou's lips a trace of pinot and out of them poured tales of acts of viciousness worthy of the great Lucifer… — Rabih Alameddine 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
Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of… — Aung San Suu Kyi 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
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight. — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against… — Eleanor Smeal 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
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The sources of Islamism's strength include the fact that it is a response to the oppression of the Third World as a… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor… — Florence King Copy Share Image
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
“Oppression doesn’t make people noble. Give any of us a little comfort, and we’ll kill to keep it. The despised become despicable.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
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