Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression,… — Aberjhani 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
I think America offers a dream that cannot be fulfilled as easily anywhere else in the world as it could be fulfilled… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
The left takes credit for being the political aisle promoting human rights and fighting oppression, but in the case of Cuba, its… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lovers of freedom, lovers of social justice, disarmers, peacekeepers, civil disobeyers, democrats, civil-rights activists, and defenders of the environment are legions in… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in… — Clementine Ford Copy Share Image
“BLOODY LIPS The bloody wound Of the gladiator Gurgles out life's end. The cries of acclimations from the stands Fill the sky… — Visar Zhiti Copy Share Image
In socialist society certain inequalities in property still exist. But in socialist society there is no longer unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression… — J. Stalin Copy Share Image
“But when we begin to live from within outward, in touch with the power of the erotic within ourselves, and allowing that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Certainly here in the U.S., we've had fundamentalist movements that have taken very critical and hostile attitudes toward immigration and the assimilation… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
History has a long-range perspective. It ultimately passes stern judgment on tyrants and vindicates those who fought, suffered, were imprisoned, and died… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
Some will say: "Why should we celebrate the birth of colonialism, of oppression, of cultural genocide through Canada 150?" It's 2017. In… — Perry Bellegarde Copy Share Image
“Our privileges are the things not within our own control that push us forward and move us ahead from that starting line.… — luvvie ajayi Copy Share Image
Marriage can be a religious thing. It can also be a secular thing. And guess what? Not everyone in the world is… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while,… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by… — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
“When I look at people talking about intersectionality, what I see is the human being magnifying a biological attribute, and then putting… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
For those of us in the opposition movement under dictatorships, part of our job is confronting police and spending time in prison.… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
This is a moral universe, which means that despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
I didn't know enough about the Civil War or its lingering effects as we all should. It's really easy to think that… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on colour but on commitment to the total abolition of apartheid and… — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the… — Greg van Eekhout 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
Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
If we're saying there are incidents of oppression in this country, systematically or individually in this country, I don't think saying, 'Well,… — Chris Long Copy Share Image
