Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Her friends, comrades…they were like family, and to see the change that had come over them all was just another painful reminder… — Victoria Lynn Copy Share Image
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The Bible cares about the systems that create oppression. We see this in the Exodus all the way to Jesus' interactions with… — Sho Baraka Copy Share Image
My hatred is precious. I don't want to waste it on those who are colluding in their own oppression. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of… — Richard Morgan 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
all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Koreans love to dance; they love to sing. If you actually know Koreans, you see how absurd the stereotype of the 'Asian… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering in the heat of injustice and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty… — John McCain Copy Share Image
I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Urge all of your men to pray, not alone in church, but everywhere. Pray when driving. Pray when fighting. Pray alone. Pray… — George S. Patton Copy Share Image
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“To apprehend myself as victim in a sexist society is to know that there are few places where I can hide, that… — Sandra Bartky Lee Copy Share Image
Through centuries of struggle, Jews across the world have been witnesses not only against the crimes of men, but for faith in… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
All socialism involves slavery… That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labors under coercion to satisfy another's desires. The relation… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression. — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression — John Locke Copy Share Image
Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don't be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don't… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“You who are Prejudice, Abuse, Ignominy, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, beware of the wide-eyed urchin. He will grow up.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I walk the city, through its crush of people and its smells: body odour, rotting food, vomit and urine. A cocktail of… — Emma Cameron Copy Share Image
Fear hems us in, stops us from thinking clearly, and prevents us from either challenging oppression or engaging calmly with the impersonal… — George Monbiot 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 have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression. — Fatos Nano Copy Share Image
The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends… — Diane Sawyer Copy Share Image
Racism is systemic: It's oppression that's built into the laws, legislation, into the way neighborhoods are policed, and into job opportunities and… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I have chosen to kneel because I simply cannot stand for the kind of oppression this country is allowing against its own… — Megan Rapinoe Copy Share Image
