We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The fact that 'Scrubs' is so popular in Israel is very important to me. I feel like I'm helping to cancel out… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . .… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I am not saying that a female-dominated or Amazon society based on the oppression of men is any more "just" than is… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of… — Benjamin Banneker Copy Share Image
Many countries persecute their own citizens and intern them in prisons or concentration camps. Oppression is becoming more and more a part… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and… — Benjamin Banneker Copy Share Image
“I walk the city, through its crush of people and its smells: body odour, rotting food, vomit and urine. A cocktail of… — Emma Cameron Copy Share Image
...the word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means ‘hidden’ or ‘obscured.’ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
America and its allies are engaged in a war against a terrorist movement that spans all corners of the globe. It is… — Kenny Marchant Copy Share Image
Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
“If that's the case, waiter, please bring me another piece of cake," Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table, "I'm… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves. — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of "us" and "them" creates a false… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility… — Thomas Woods Copy Share Image
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the… — George Haven Putnam Copy Share Image
Everywhere you go on the continent of Europe at this hour you see the conflict between militarism and industrialism. You see the… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
