If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
It's not new to attempt to vilify the minority that speaks about their oppression. That's not a new thing. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
“Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Sometimes films about oppression or suppression can be quite maudlin and quite dour. Sometimes you need a little sugar with the medicine… — Chris O'Dowd Copy Share Image
What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
“You’re under no obligation to accept my oppression, but it is strongly recommended. I’ll make you love me, even if I have… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized… — Horace Greeley Copy Share Image
If we'd lived in England or America we'd have told stories abut our lives and nobody would have called it protest theatre.… — John Kani Copy Share Image
Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in… — William Blake Copy Share Image
When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
“The festive music died down and the granite pillars were replaced with rotted wooden beams as he continued down the alleyways. The… — Evan Meekins Copy Share Image
Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back:… — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
Before she is an individual, a shaman is foremost a vehicle for receiving and expressing the grief and indignation of the people… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
“We have been weathering this hurricane wall of doubt and violence for so long, and now, more crystalline than ever, we have… — Lindy West Copy Share Image
“A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because,… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
The United States, which has been called the home of the persecuted and the dispossessed, has been since its founding an asylum… — Eileen Simpson Copy Share Image
“It is high time for the living to get tough, for toughness is indispensable in the struggle to safeguard and develop the… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Fundamental to a radical and lesbian feminist politics is the understanding that 'the personal is political'. This phrase has two interrelated meanings.… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long. — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.” — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face? — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold. — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani Copy Share Image
What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression? — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion…they need our legs & lungs of endurance. — Gary Haugen Copy Share Image
It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“A commitment to sexual equality with men is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
So, all of us would do well to stop fighting each other for our space at the bottom, because there ain't no… — Cheryl Clarke Copy Share Image
I think it's an enormous blessing to be the child of an immigrant who fled oppression, because you realize how fragile liberty… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“...the oppressor is truly repressed. Their poverty is existential, often surrounded by an abundance of material goods. (Leonardo Boff, p. 179)” — Mev Puleo Copy Share Image
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Shortly after news of Zarqawi's death reached the media, al-Qaeda stated its intention to continue its oppression of the Iraqi people. — Mike Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
