“Oppression cannot teach justice. That task belongs to empathy.” — Jamie Arpin-Ricci Copy Share Image
These my two hands / quick to slap my face / before others could slap it. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“No matter how primitive a community is, it is against any type of oppression.” — Suwardi Surjaningrat Copy Share Image
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may. — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
“Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?” — Ray Gwyn Smith Copy Share Image
In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“They wouldn’t do it without a cause, would they? You must have done something to provoke them.” As if that’s how oppression… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“The rEaL wOrLd is but a fictional place where those who have narrow minds and shallow imagination compile their oppressive ideas of… — Khayri R.R. Woulfe Copy Share Image
Do everything possible so that liberty is victorious over oppression, justice over injustice, love over hate. — Ignacio Ellacuria Copy Share Image
“Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Out of the mists of our long oppression, / We bring love for ourselves and each other, / And love for the… — Harry Hay Copy Share Image
I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In… — Arthur Melvin Okun Copy Share Image
It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Equality of condition and equality of opportunity must provide the foundation of an interdependent nation with building blocks found in dignity and… — Julie Banks Lewis Copy Share Image
“In a system of intimidation and control, people do not show how much they know, how deeply they feel, until their practical… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of… — Thomas Jefferson 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 we take your person into account, you who are a young maiden, to whom God gives the strength and power to… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Jefferson, Madison and many others taught that complex laws and codes were sure signs of oppression. They agreed with Montesquieu, Lock and… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“...we in the West constitute a society based on violence, oppression, misery, and domination that has led to an ongoing societal trauma… — A. Breeze Harper Copy Share Image
The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied… — John Adams Copy Share Image
How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The wall rose high above us in the night, illimitable and fearsome. If we could just get across it, then we would… — Jaida Jones Copy Share Image
“Sign of an abusive system: getting angry at other's real needs.” — Jeff VanVonderen Copy Share Image
Due to hate, fear, and oppression, the North Koreans cannot help themselves. — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
“When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
“The oppressed are sometimes the most rabid of oppressors" (119).” — Elizabeth Nunez Copy Share Image
“The greatest weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” — Steve Biko Copy Share Image
“The ease with which money forgives bayonets and lies to justify the massacre with reasoned arguments” — Liu Xiaobo 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
