Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is unity in the oppression. There must be absolute unity and determination, in the response — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
The sources of Islamism's strength include the fact that it is a response to the oppression of the Third World as a… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality. — Peter Tosh Copy Share Image
The closest Indian analogy to the position of black Americans is that of the Dalits - formerly called 'Untouchables,' the outcastes who… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed… — Oliver Wolcott Copy Share Image
Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
“When we place ourselves in a position of judgment, then we turn ourselves into oppressors. Healthy self-esteem cannot exist side-by-side with oppression… — Julia A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression. — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
If we're saying there are incidents of oppression in this country, systematically or individually in this country, I don't think saying, 'Well,… — Chris Long Copy Share Image
We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Aside from the occasional genocide, oppression, evil and torture, etc., it is inarguable that public policy could be implemented more rapidly in… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once… — Federico Mayor Zaragoza Copy Share Image
“James Madison framed the constitutional order so that power would be in the hands of the Senate, which represents “the wealth of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who have to face persistent political persecution become highly politicized. Our lives take on a rhythm different from those who, on… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for. — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
“And yet it was a fact that if Syme grasped, even for three seconds, the nature of his, Winston's, secret opinions, he… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
