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
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
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
Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“This is how we are being governed right now, people. Six conservative justices. They're just doing what they want. And what they… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
An extensive empire must be supported by a refined system of policy and oppression; in the centre, an absolute power, prompt in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have… — Pope Francis 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
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
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 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
“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
Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom.… — Michael Flatley Copy Share Image
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
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
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
