We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression; the heart of a wise man should resemble a mirror, which reflects… — Confucius Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things to do, is control someone. One of the worst things, is succeeding at it. — Tyler Bowen Copy Share Image
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“it is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
“Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Choosing our own aims and seeking to bring them to fruition creates a sense of vitality and motivation in life. The only… — Brendon Burchard Copy Share Image
There were many groups working for women's rights, but none of them dealt with the root cause of women's oppression-religion. — Anne Nicol Gaylor Copy Share Image
“Do not waste your anger, you may just be the candidate to deliver a people from oppression or injustice.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
I am so proud to be black. I am, nevertheless, tired of the oppression. We need to develop and support a cohesive… — Angela Rye Copy Share Image
Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Sometimes black people really want to hold onto our oppression - 'This is ours! This belongs to us.' You can't just talk… — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another. It's happened in the USA… — Tim Tebow Copy Share Image
At times I feel it almost impossible not to despond entirely of there ever being a better, brighter day for us. None… — Charlotte Forten Grimke Copy Share Image
If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I don't want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“So if the traditions and culture of the Eastern community are blindly compelled to hurt a woman’s dignity, insult and degrade her… — Huda Sharawi Copy Share Image
We have the opportunity now to look at the two billion people in the world who suffer from the most abject poverty,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
“Oppression Olympics is what smart liberal Americans say to make you feel stupid and to make you shut up. But there IS… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
While we sometimes feel and have felt in days that are past and gone, to complain because we meet with oppression, persecution,… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Whether it's microaggressions or blatant racism, it's always been a fight. We've been fighting oppression for 400 years and it will continue… — Lexi Underwood Copy Share Image
Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth. — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Anytime that someone defies the status quo and defies oppression, it feels like a step in the right direction. — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
“This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
“The thing about oppression is this: when you hold someone down, you, too, have to be there to make sure they don't… — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
Patience is one of those feminine qualities which have their origin in our oppression but should be preserved after our liberation. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
