We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A free man - is a man who is free internally. As all other people, externally he or she depends on society.… — Simon Soloveychik Copy Share Image
“No one is more vulnerable to fear than a man who keeps another in bondage. He will do anything to prevent justice… — Jane Jensen Copy Share Image
“Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“If people in the position of power are not made to be accountable, then, ungodliness, injustice and oppression will continue to be… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Woe is the man who uses fear and oppression to bear the heart of an opened mind. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ...Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of… — Linda Gordon Copy Share Image
I wish I was a mirror, that every rude thing done to me or every careless word I hear would just bounce… — Meow Opre Copy Share Image
Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner. — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort,… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. Race… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
The reason I joined the struggle against Apartheid was because you had this system of oppression, which affected everybody who was black.… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Above all I ask leaders and legislators and the entire international community above all to confront the reality of those who have… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
Our freedoms are shared freedoms: they are bound up in each other. The ability to confront oppression in the guise of religion… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the… — Alan King Copy Share Image
“[Israel's military occupation is] in gross violation of international law and has been from the outset. And that much, at least, is… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
