For a shaman, all things considered taboo get ripped apart, and one feels the satisfaction of being freed from agony through vituperation… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
“This condition in which women live is created out of, and defended by, a system of ideas represented by the world's religions,… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
This is a moral universe, which means that, despite all the evidence that seems to be to the contrary, there is no… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
“In Warsaw, you also remember that you are in a Communist-controlled country, though by all accounts the control is now humane and… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight. But to… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal - everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The harsh fact of the matter is that this nation has not remotely come to grips with how many of its laws… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
We may see how miraculously God defends our people, and makes us hope that, in spite of the malice of our enemies,… — William the Silent Copy Share Image
No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution,… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
“Oppression cannot teach justice. That task belongs to empathy.” — Jamie Arpin-Ricci Copy Share Image
The Naked Socialist connects the ancient order of oppression with the modern order of oppression. The Naked Socialist is a fabulous book… — Morgan Philpot Copy Share Image
Liberate yourself with the idea that you can be free from the chains of oppression. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us -… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
