Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the… — Elizabeth Gaskell 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
In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it… — Thomas Paine 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
“And yet it was a fact that if Syme grasped, even for three seconds, the nature of his, Winston's, secret opinions, he… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The globalisation of information makes people aware of what they have - and have not. Problems and oppression are impossible to hide,… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
“It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The immigration system in America today has been misrepresented, misunderstood to mean: "Anybody who wants to come can come. The world is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“And, sincerely, we respect her stance. The Liberal Rednecks are all about standing up for your beliefs even when they’re hateful, bigoted,… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
“And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates the soul of South Africa is… — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When the residue of oppression and fear are compounded over time, when the historical precedents of policing and discrimination manifest themselves over… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
A small-time hoodlum who had spent most of the 1960s at San Quentin State Prison in California, the 30-year-old Bryant claimed that… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Throughout history government has served as a vehicle for the organization of hatred and oppression, benefiting no one except those who are… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
The very essence of the Sufi spiritual tradition requires you to purify your heart, to liberate yourself from your ego and to… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are a conspiracy of hope and we are pressing back against the strong tide of oppression which for centuries has been… — Patricia Deegan Copy Share Image
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows, the ease of our passions, the discharge of our oppressions, the sanctuary to our calamities,… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
If it doesn't happen, the continuing oppression will be met by more resistance from a less tolerant populace which wants a democratic… — Florencio Abad Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to… — Amir Butler Copy Share Image
It was the people who did not care who filled the world with fire and oppression. It was the hands of the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am… — Septima Poinsette Clark Copy Share Image
Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
As I grew older and got into the late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be a voice of the people.… — Rza Copy Share Image
“Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us into conformity to the logic of its system… — Richard Shaull Copy Share Image
This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“It means understanding that different kinds of oppression are interlinked, and that one can't liberate only one group without the others. It… — Shiri Eisner Copy Share Image
The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this… — Andrea Dworkin 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
“I read once, and I wished I could remember where, that Brave was a place. You could just go there if you… — Katherine Locke Copy Share Image
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