“The oppressed, as objects, as "things", have no purposes except those their oppressors prescribe for them.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.” — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.” — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice. — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression. — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
I live in the United States, but I do not know exactly where. My address is wherever there is a fight against… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
“In every country where there is a vicious oppression, a peaceful and a continuous civil disobedience is the magical door opening to… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I believe certain members of the U.S. Congress have aided in the oppression and diversion of critical information that could have revealed… — Bo Gritz Copy Share Image
Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them. — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
We have learned that change cannot come through war. War is not a feasible tool to use in fighting against the oppression… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
“The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who… — Bob Avakian Copy Share Image
The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the… — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
“Oppression is built on a series of assumptions, and if they begin to crumble, the system is in grave danger. The assumptions… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“The proper criterion for distinguishing "right" from "wrong" is not mysterious.It is embodied in the principles that advance the cause of the… — Dhoruba Bin Wahad Copy Share Image
The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity,… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I am so proud to be black. I am, nevertheless, tired of the oppression. We need to develop and support a cohesive… — Angela Rye Copy Share Image
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our… — Trista Hendren Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“The only way to bear the overwhelming pain of oppression is by telling, in all its detail, in the presence of witnesses… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
Christianity was created by some decadent and degenerated Romans as a tool of oppression, in the late Roman era, and it should… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
“The unfailing rhythm of the seasons, the ever-turning wheel of life, the four facets of the earth which are lit in turn… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance of… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
