“The festive music died down and the granite pillars were replaced with rotted wooden beams as he continued down the alleyways. The… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the… — Benjamin Franklin 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
..the struggle to end sexist oppression that focuses on destroying the cultural basis for such domination strengthens other liberation struggles. Individuals who… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of the kind of political correctness that is about not promoting prejudice. But some people in America are offended… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of… — William Pitt Copy Share Image
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The oppression is like nothing imaginable - I literally believed that Kim Jong-il could read my mind. — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the… — Nick Hornby 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
“Everything that highly educated men can do to obscure a simple truth, to make a woman doubt her feelings, to make her… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Never give up. Things may be hard, but if you quit trying they'll never get better. Stop worrying and start trusting God.… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back:… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
“When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
Violent resistance against the power of the state is the last resort of the minority in its effort to break loose from… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image