Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name,… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
“(advice to his children) Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of… — William Penn Copy Share Image
I don't think a white person can write accurately and convincingly about what black people experience of oppression. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy,… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
Racial discrimination, South Africa's economic power, its oppression and exploitation of all the black peoples, are part and parcel of the same… — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past. — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Black men and women who refuse to live under oppression are dangerous to white society because they become symbols of hope to… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
If we're saying there are incidents of oppression in this country, systematically or individually in this country, I don't think saying, 'Well,… — Chris Long Copy Share Image
The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts… — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
We had to forge an alliance of strength based not on colour but on commitment to the total abolition of apartheid and… — Oliver Tambo Copy Share Image
“But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas - and what I mean… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“A tear slipped from eye, as I stood helpless beside Kiran. “They have done nothing wrong, except fight for the freedom you… — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
“The concept of fourth-generation wars simply refers to the use of disinformation, funding subversive N.G.O.s, and spreading rumours as a method for… — Maged Mandour Copy Share Image
Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“If that's the case, waiter, please bring me another piece of cake," Gramps said as lunch was brought to the table, "I'm… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
In every human Beast, God has implanted a Principle, which we call Love of Freedom; it is impatient of Oppression, and pants… — Phillis Wheatley Copy Share Image
The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
. . .there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I have always and will always stand on behalf of justice and do not condone oppression in any form. — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
“The so-called what they called "illiterate" people would not remain oppressed forever. The desire for liberation will, indeed, someday manifests itself.” — Henry Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind. — Bell Hooks 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
Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
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