Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and… — Sulak Sivaraksa Copy Share Image
Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“Intersectionalists are the ones responsible for dreaming up new, ever more bizarre categories of oppression.” — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
To embrace the ideas of Malcolm X is to embrace the ideas of African Internationalism and the ideas of African Internationalism are… — Omali Yeshitela Copy Share Image
For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“For the absence of human companionship in bestial forms; the loss of green fields, free to her as to the winds of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
I am not saying that a female-dominated or Amazon society based on the oppression of men is any more "just" than is… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a "disposable" culture which is now… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as… — Carol J. Adams Copy Share Image
“There is tremendous need in today's World, and a big challenge for Women (especially the Christians) to "be successful”; at work/proffession and… — Ibiloye Abiodun Christian Copy Share Image
“The kind of emancipation that is being put forward today in technologically based cultures is crying out for women at last to… — Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The American administration obviously has supported the dictators in the Muslim countries and the Muslims are rising, as you can see their… — Anjem Choudary Copy Share Image
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I wish I was a mirror, that every rude thing done to me or every careless word I hear would just bounce… — Meow Opre Copy Share Image
Oppression is not limited to people of color, but if you feel guilty that's something you should confront. — Misha Green Copy Share Image
The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Just because our world is wrong doesn’t mean people don’t enjoy the binds which are holding them in. At least their binds… — Rebecca Crunden Copy Share Image
“As I'd seen over and again, people who see themselves as victims sometimes don't notice when they become oppressors.” — Souad Mekhennet Copy Share Image
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression — Sheila Jeffrys Copy Share Image
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South. — Clarice Taylor Copy Share Image
Palestinians are Christian, Muslims, atheist, Buddhist - you name it. And the majority I know have nothing against Judaism and everything against… — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own… — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
![“I am not saying that a female-dominated or Amazon society based on the oppression of men is any more "just" than is a male-dominated society based on the oppression of women. I am merely pointing out in what ways it is better for women. [¶] Perhaps someday a choice between forms of injustice will…” quote by Phyllis Chesler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abe/phyllis-chesler-16740_amazon_i-am-not-saying-that-a-female-dominated_2610666.jpg)
