“How is it called freedom if it is limited by those with a history of oppressing you?” — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor. — Lerone Bennett, Jr Copy Share Image
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Liberate yourself with the idea that you can be free from the chains of oppression. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“Oppression is the seed of power; you will plant it against yourself” — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
“Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things to do, is control someone. One of the worst things, is succeeding at it. — Tyler Bowen Copy Share Image
We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects… — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Oppression is hardball. Though the range can vary, oppression is the closest Satan or his demons can get to a believer.” — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
“The great and the mighty that use their assets and power to subjugate people are demonstrating oppression.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“I read once, and I wished I could remember where, that Brave was a place. You could just go there if you… — Katherine Locke Copy Share Image
This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“It means understanding that different kinds of oppression are interlinked, and that one can't liberate only one group without the others. It… — Shiri Eisner Copy Share Image
As I grew older and got into the late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be a voice of the people.… — Rza Copy Share Image
“Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and subtly programming us into conformity to the logic of its system… — Richard Shaull 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
My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am… — Septima Poinsette Clark 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
Just as the children of Israel were directed by God to depart from the land of their oppression with its tyrannical monarch,… — Daniel L Dreisbach 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
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
“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
A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance of… — Amilcar Cabral 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
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
Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society. — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
Openness without strength is useless; strength without openness is oppression. — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
History is a record of the incessant struggle of humanity against ignorance and oppression. — Helen Keller Copy Share Image