“All my contemporaries— hundred-and-fivers or convicts— will tell you how we lived in barely sentient fear, raising children for the executioner, prison,… — Anna Akhmatova 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
The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code… — Stephen Kinzer 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
I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy. — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
“...it is not really the difference the oppressor fears so much as the similarity. He fears he will discover in himself the… — Cherrie Morago Copy Share Image
Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country. — Kerby Jean-Raymond Copy Share Image
Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
“The only marches I have ever witnessed under a banner of so-called "Christianity" have been to enforce oppression and incite hatred and… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
The serious work for feminism in the 21st century is across the globe. Instead of retreating into "safe spaces" and focusing on… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
“No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.” — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Well, when you think about it black American culture evolved over three and a half centuries. Every minute under which they lived… — Shelby Steele 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
Cruelty, if we consider it as a crime, is the greatest of all; if we consider it as a madness, we are… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
...Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessness in the past, despite allthe injustices that… — Irena Klepfisz 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
“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
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression. — Gary Clark, Jr Copy Share Image
The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it; to preserve… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity.” — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
