Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
I dare anyone to spend 10 years in the laugh-track that is Chuck Lorre's hive of oppression and not suffer some form… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The sources of Islamism's strength include the fact that it is a response to the oppression of the Third World as a… — Rene Girard Copy Share Image
Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor… — Florence King Copy Share Image
If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight. — Velupillai Prabhakaran Copy Share Image
Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It's different everywhere you go. I'm lucky I'm drawn into people who love and support me. I'm sheltered from that life. I… — Nomi Ruiz Copy Share Image
Our freedoms are shared freedoms: they are bound up in each other. The ability to confront oppression in the guise of religion… — Deeyah Khan Copy Share Image
For a shaman, all things considered taboo get ripped apart, and one feels the satisfaction of being freed from agony through vituperation… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
“Whenever we use our religion, as individuals, or as groups within the church, to act in tandem with political and economic groups… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of "us" and "them" creates a false… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking;… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
What you must understand is oppression does not end with the niggers. It does not end with the poor people, it doesn't… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
...I believe it is now the duty of the slaves of the South to rebuke their masters for their robbery, oppression and… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“James Madison framed the constitutional order so that power would be in the hands of the Senate, which represents “the wealth of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Social ecology is based on the conviction that nearly all of our present ecological problems originate in deep-seated social problems. It follows,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a… — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
There are some groups that for years and years have not gotten the rights that the majority of human beings have, and… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
“Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved and that nothing-sicknes s, failure, emotional distress, oppression, war, or even… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression. — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Hold just enough ego to be a man of your word, and to stand against evil mobs who force the absurd.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
What the world needs is not redemption from sin but redemption from hunger and oppression; it has no need to pin its… — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
“Oppression doesn’t make people noble. Give any of us a little comfort, and we’ll kill to keep it. The despised become despicable.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog. — Hany Abu-Assad Copy Share Image
But whether the resistance against government tyrants is non-violent or physically violent, the effort to overthrow state oppression qualifies as true patriotism. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Terrorism isn't insanity. It grows out of social conditions that are well known: poverty, social oppression, dictatorship, and a void of meaning… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
