The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
“If oppression produced saints, we’d want everyone to be oppressed.” — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“Let them shoot us in the head, My blood will grow roots and will blossom.” — Visar Zhiti Copy Share Image
Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed.” — Sunday Adelaja 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
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 "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
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
As a human being, I will always feel that where there is oppression, I am with the underdog. — Hany Abu-Assad 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
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
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
I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty… — John McCain Copy Share Image
When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Honey, I've lived long enough to know that begging your oppressors to spare you never works. You either fight back, or remind… — Farah Naz Rishi Copy Share Image
'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. Race… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Koreans love to dance; they love to sing. If you actually know Koreans, you see how absurd the stereotype of the 'Asian… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're… — Rita Mae Brown 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
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
The antagonism between nationalities will lose all its acuteness on the day when neither the iniquitous tendency to oppression and domination, nor… — African Spir 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
“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
Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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