“I walk the city, through its crush of people and its smells: body odour, rotting food, vomit and urine. A cocktail of… — Emma Cameron Copy Share Image
Fear hems us in, stops us from thinking clearly, and prevents us from either challenging oppression or engaging calmly with the impersonal… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the… — Nnedi Okorafor Copy Share Image
Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who deny the right of a jury to protect an individual in resisting an unjust law of the government, deny him… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that.… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted… — Andrea Dworkin 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
“Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas - and what I mean… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“A tear slipped from eye, as I stood helpless beside Kiran. “They have done nothing wrong, except fight for the freedom you… — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
“In both cases, it is the prejudice, not the condition, that does the harm. It may be, as some would have it,… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In fact, it is the dictatorship's policy that isolates the people of Burma while it reaches out to different countries every year… — Zoya Phan Copy Share Image
“The truth is that just as - biologically - males and females are never victims of one another but both victims of… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“But in Ward 9 the air had a real quality, it clamped itself over your face like a pad of cotton wool,… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“When opposition presses (OPPRESSION) one has to persevere, press, push back but never allow yourself to be pressed like a grape unless… — Eveth Colley Copy Share Image
A people armed and free, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition and is a bulwark for the nation against foreign… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We have two kinds of oppression. Oppression that is universal - everyone in Iran is subject to it. But everyone has also… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
Half a world away nations that once lived under oppression and tyranny are now budding democracies due in large part to America… — Bob Riley Copy Share Image
“Bigots often like to say they're the ones being hurt as they oppress and hurt others. Never fall for the 'pity the… — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“I could go into their reality any time I chose to, but they could never come into mine. This is what I… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism,… — Eugene Victor Debs Copy Share Image
Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, in periods of oppression and mass insanity, the most decisive form of resistance is simply the decision to not engage.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their… — Storm Constantine Copy Share Image
![“The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes…” quote by Stephen Kinzer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b6/stephen-kinzer-2514_ajax_the-world-has-paid-a-heavy-price-for-the_2256735.jpg)
