Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which… — Anna Louise Strong Copy Share Image
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because,… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The Constitutional framers were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Bug and Tony should have been allies. But any successful structure of domination always gets the weak to reject each other.” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
The sad fact is that actual artistic oppression - book banning in its many modern forms - is a matter of course… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and… — Friedrich Engels 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
One of the things is when you think, "Wait, I'm fearful of retaliation, I'm fearful of oppression because of someone who is… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging… — Mary Hays Copy Share Image
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Be rich in expressing yourself in a noble way and you shall never be oppressed without those who can help noticing. Oppression… — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
I came in the gate as an African-American poor kid wanting to be a neurosurgeon but - with American life and the… — Lil B Copy Share Image
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
