“the nature of soldiers in certain instances could turn well meaning, good people into tools of oppression.” — Andreas Christensen Copy Share Image
We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Students regularly act out little psycho-dramas of oppression before an appreciative audience of diversity deanlets who use the occasion to expand their… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from… — Carl T. Rowan Copy Share Image
Never forget that turning a blind eye to oppression and watching from the sidelines is itself opression — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism. — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
I go to see films at the multiplex because they are not good films, and so I don't have to think about… — Alissa Quart Copy Share Image
We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
If they hear people running for - president... despite all the other problems that George W. Bush made after 9/11 when he… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions,… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
Through its appropriation of "texts of terror" and especially through the application of those texts to the Jews, the Christian religion created… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
I think that because human difference for so long, in all its various forms, has been the root of so much oppression,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Essential to the attainment of these national goals is the moral imperative of ensuring social justice and respect for human dignity. The… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The world has got more democracies than ever, and human rights are high on almost every country's agenda. Still, corruption and oppression… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
The worst way of oppression involve exploitation of children, preying on vulnerability, denying others the right to live safely, and denying people… — Alice Glass Copy Share Image
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . .… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
“The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:] It is true… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“A stomach, used to being only half filled, becomes complacent; if it starts getting enough, it soon leads to a loud mouth.” — R. N. Prasher Copy Share Image
The clergy, no less than the capitalist class, lives on the backs of the people, profits from the degradation, the ignorance and… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
In order to achieve that end goal of equality it is a very gendered oppression primarily affecting women that needs to be… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Don't let a corrupt Media and Criminal Government continue to Brainwash You. THINK FOR YOURSELVES JAMAICANS WHILE YOU STILL CAN!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit. — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of… — Beverly Daniel Tatum Copy Share Image
Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate… — Jean O'Leary Copy Share Image
Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have… — August Bebel Copy Share Image
To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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