“[A]s long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We may see how miraculously God defends our people, and makes us hope that, in spite of the malice of our enemies,… — William the Silent Copy Share Image
Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It's just not funny to disrespect other people's beliefs, backgrounds, cultures, or identities when those are deeply rooted in longstanding oppression. Jokes… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the… — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
In the early period of Left struggles, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, there were many different trajectories for the… — Vijay Prashad Copy Share Image
The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons:… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“Babylon was the government that had outlawed them, the police that had pummeled and killed them. Babylon was the church that damned… — Safiya Sinclair Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to exaggerate the adverse influence of the precepts and practices of religion upon the status and happiness of woman.… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner Copy Share Image
“Those who are truly alive are kindly and unsuspecting in their human relationships and consequently endangered under present conditions. They assume that… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Of course, intersectionality theory is a confused muddle. It fights racism and sexism by classifying everyone according to race and sex. It… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
We're used to saying that women in other cultures are oppressed, but the question that I had when making the film was:… — Maimouna Doucoure Copy Share Image
I think violence is part of the struggle against oppression. If something bad happens to these people [animal researchers], it will discourage… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
It's less to do about me - 'Hey, I'm black and it hurts my feelings; it's a symbol of slavery and oppression'… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
[T]he powers granted by the proposed Constitution are the gift of the people, and may be resumed by them when perverted to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
There are a lot of leaders that talk about ending things like oppression - whether it's discrimination or getting a job -… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Victims becoming torturers is such a classic historical pattern that we could formulate, regarding any revolution whatever, this iron law : combat… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Feminists have convinced themselves that any difference between men and women is oppression and that women in the United States are an… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
Russia is now very far from being a communist country, but when I walked around Moscow, I kept glimpsing these haunting images.… — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor;… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Rastafarianism and reggae music have always kind of resonated with me. Those ideas of redemption, liberation and overcoming oppression through music, weed… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
The impious man, who sells his country's freedom Makes all the guilt of tyranny his own. His are her slaughters, her oppressions… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
In the industry I work in, women have had a lot of oppression. So, I don't like to stick to the status… — Leah Williamson Copy Share Image
![“[A]s long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if meaningful.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6e7/noam-chomsky-42_coercion_a-s-long-as-individuals-are-compelled-to_2063768.jpg)
![“I think violence is part of the struggle against oppression. If something bad happens to these people [animal researchers], it will discourage others. It is inevitable that violence will be used in the struggle and that it will be effective.” quote by Jerry Vlasak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d40/jerry-vlasak-20536_animal_i-think-violence-is-part-of-the-struggle_3172154.jpg)
![“[T]he powers granted by the proposed Constitution are the gift of the people, and may be resumed by them when perverted to their oppression, and every power not granted thereby remains with the people.” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0ff/james-madison-373_constitution_t-he-powers-granted-by-the-proposed-cons_3012358.jpg)
