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
No man-made system is perfect, and the system of oppression is no exception. It is subject to fatigue, to cracks, which you… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
We must not enable anyone to impose his personal view regarding religion on others by force, oppression, or pressure. — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
“It is the people who cannot stand oppression that qualifies to fight today’s modern slavery.” — Sunday Adelaja 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
When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
As a kid, I didn't need to be convinced the future promised peril and oppression, so when I started thinking up the… — Greg van Eekhout Copy Share Image
There have been poverty, pestilence, and famine, which were due to man's inadequate mastery of nature. There have been wars, oppressions and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The abused child goes on living within those who have survived such torture, a torture that ended with total repression. They live… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I didn't know enough about the Civil War or its lingering effects as we all should. It's really easy to think that… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
For those of us in the opposition movement under dictatorships, part of our job is confronting police and spending time in prison.… — Liu Xiaobo Copy Share Image
Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Fear (...) that has no relation to capabilities or even to reality is epidemic among women today. Fear of being independent (that… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But… — Mumia Abu-Jamal Copy Share Image
“I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in what way I have found myself… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Western capitalist society, and especially my own American society, is one characterized by great inequalities. In any such society, by the nature… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“I understood intersectionality—the way that white supremacy props up patriarchy props up poverty props up environmental destruction props up white supremacy again—on… — Jacob Tobia Copy Share Image
“Conquest occurred through violence, and over-expolitation and oppression necessitate continued violence, so the army is present. There would be no contradiction in… — Albert Memmi Copy Share Image
I don’t claim to know an over-arching ‘Meaning of Life,’ but I do operate under the understanding that life should not be… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
Why can't we have a voice? What's the difference between an athlete having millions or Donald Trump? Every time a politician talks,… — Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf 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
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
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of… — Edmund Burke 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
“Never give up. Things may be hard, but if you quit trying they'll never get better. Stop worrying and start trusting God.… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others. — Bell Hooks 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 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
For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“The stark nakedness and simplicity of the conflict with which humanity is oppressed - that of getting angry with and wishing to… — John Bowlby Copy Share Image
Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you… — Wei Jingsheng Copy Share Image
