The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
“...from the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement?” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
Systemically, there hasn't been an oppression more overt and long-lasting than economic oppression against black people and minorities in this country. — Kerby Jean-Raymond Copy Share Image
“They were erected purposefully to send a strong message to all who walked in their shadows about who was still in charge… — Mitch Landrieu Copy Share Image
If there was an Oppression Olympics, I would win the gold medal. I'm Palestinian, Muslim, I'm female, I'm disabled, and I live… — Maysoon Zayid Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Best to live and love by the maxim that 'silence in the face of evil is evil itself', but when it's evil… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging… — Mary Hays Copy Share Image
I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
“I was born free, yet today I am in chains. Invisible, they were loosely draped and passed unnoticed until the age of… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
“This condition in which women live is created out of, and defended by, a system of ideas represented by the world's religions,… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are… — Abdullah of Saudi Arabia Copy Share Image
Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Identity politics is universally attractive because it enables failures and weaknesses to be spun as the products of oppression and historical injustice.… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
“Free speech is the antidote to tyranny, a powerful force that dismantles the walls of oppression and allows the sunlight of scrutiny… — James William Steven Parker Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is no genuine democracy without an informed public. While there are no guarantees that a critical education will prompt individuals to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Philip Martin has written a wise, compassionate, and nurturing guide through the self-oppression of depression. — Harold H. Bloomfield Copy Share Image
“If there is any society where the leaders lack the knowledge and the importance of justice, then oppression will be a common… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
An Irishman I am, begora! With a heart and a spirit on me not crushed be a hundred years of oppression. I'll… — Martin McDonagh Copy Share Image
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
“If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I guess there… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When a group has internalised their oppression, they may find themselves unable to imagine living without it” — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
...secession, like any other REVOLUTIONARY ACT, may be morally justified by the extremity of oppression; but to call it a constitutional right… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Before the palefaces came among us, we enjoyed the happiness of unbounded freedom and were acquainted with neither riches, wants, nor oppression. — Tecumseh Copy Share Image
When I see the migrant workers broken bodies and eyes without hope, I want to embrace and wipe away their fears. It… — Irene Fernandez Copy Share Image
The problem in the world is the oppression of man by man; it this which threatens existence. — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
The regressive Left ranks minority groups in a pecking order to compete in a kind of 'Oppression Olympics.' Gold medal goes to… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
