The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
“Persecution complexes are reaffirming to those who benefit from unearned privileges.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves... — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression. — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy. — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
“See the oppressed and the oppressor, and you will find the one that God will take part in on the day of… — Brother Pedro Copy Share Image
Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world. — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who… — Molly Crabapple Copy Share Image
The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
“It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual… — Albert Memmi Copy Share Image
There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of… — Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Copy Share Image
I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating… — Marwan Barghouti Copy Share Image
When a human being is oppressed, the natural tendency is to feel anger. Jazz is a response to oppression that is not… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
... women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Wealth is attended with power, by which bargains and proceedings, contrary to universal righteousness, are supported; and hence oppression, carried on with… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
For decades, free nations tolerated oppression in the Middle East for the sake of stability. In practice, this approach brought little stability… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
It's a stereotype that Jews run Hollywood. Guess what? It's true. Jews do run Hollywood. It's a stereotype that many Jews are… — Bryan Fogel Copy Share Image
A lot of the work I've been doing on camera has been me speaking on trans issues and illuminating things in a… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
“Here’s the thing about oppression: It’s rarely the result of one person’s actions and often it’s not even intentional. As philosopher Carol… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams - a form which is the style, the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“This is how we are being governed right now, people. Six conservative justices. They're just doing what they want. And what they… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
“When I say that we must establish values with originate in sisterhood, I mean to say that we must not accept, even… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people?… — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed hungry person. True freedom can only be… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
To the security of a free Constitution it [knowledge] contributes in various ways: by teaching the people themselves to know and to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.” — Roger Casement Copy Share Image
“Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“For the oppressors..to 'be' is to have and to be the class of the "haves".” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
growth requires purposeful division. Responsible dissent is the essence of democracy. — Abigail McCarthy Copy Share Image
There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal. — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I know the truth of North Korea. The oppression and their tragedy. It cannot be silenced. — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
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