I think up to the 1990s, there were a lot of political commentaries in our films... on oppression and women empowerment. — Vivek Agnihotri Copy Share Image
The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I would hesitate to give advice to the Dalai Lama and his people because they are suffering. The Dalai Lama suffered from… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
“The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.” — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.” — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
When Colin Kaepernick first took a knee, he took it, and he identified police brutality, aggressive policing techniques, he broadened it to… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
The only thing that can be expected from the next US president is more war, more murder, and more oppression of the… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
I think America offers a dream that cannot be fulfilled as easily anywhere else in the world as it could be fulfilled… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“Power is given only to those you allow to have power over you. No man was born with a master. The only… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression,… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom.… — Michael Flatley Copy Share Image
We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity,… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The central question is not: what is force and what is freedom? That is a good question, but in the realm of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Weight and body oppression is oppressive to everyone. When you live in a society that says that one kind of body is… — Golda Poretsky 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
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and… — Benjamin Banneker Copy Share Image
“Generational oppression begins when what is meant to be transferred to one offspring has been taken over by reason of oppression.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia. — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“Now I understand why women want to have children - it's simply the urge to create happiness for yourself, somehow to fill… — Nina Lugovskaya Copy Share Image
Being black in America - especially as I was growing up - the feeling of oppression, the feeling of being outcast, the… — Rza Copy Share Image
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other? — Benazir Bhutto 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
“The rightist sectarian wants to slow down the historical process, to domesticate time and thus to domesticate men and women.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Speaking like this doesn't mean that we're anti-white, but it does mean we're anti-exploitation, we're anti-degradation, we're anti-oppression. — Malcolm X 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
Do everything possible so that liberty is victorious over oppression, justice over injustice, love over hate. — Ignacio Ellacuria 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
