It must not be forgotten in fairness to the National Government that apartheid is not just a policy of oppression but an… — Harry Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
If white American feminist theory need not deal with the differences between us, and the resulting difference in our oppressions, then how… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a "disposable" culture which is now… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism. — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
Although until recently the Church was closely linked to the established order, it is beginning to take a different attitude regarding the… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not… — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
I think it's important not to view Martin Luther King Jr. in a narrow political manner. His fundamental commitment is to a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I… — William Blake Copy Share Image
As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I don’t claim to know an over-arching ‘Meaning of Life,’ but I do operate under the understanding that life should not be… — David G. McAfee 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
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Wealth is attended with power, by which bargains and proceedings, contrary to universal righteousness, are supported; and hence oppression, carried on with… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
