A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government. — Byron White Copy Share Image
“If people in the position of power are not made to be accountable, then, ungodliness, injustice and oppression will continue to be… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Christmas has become a public affirmation of the power and benignity of the state, to which we all make obeisance in the… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the… — Bell Hooks 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
“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
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
Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery. — Sharan Burrow Copy Share Image
A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The farmer, as conceived and portrayed by me in 'Upkar' is a modern, educated one. He is socially conscious, aware of his… — Manoj Kumar Copy Share Image
A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; second, to liberty; third, to property; together with… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Of course, intersectionality theory is a confused muddle. It fights racism and sexism by classifying everyone according to race and sex. It… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
“Those who are truly alive are kindly and unsuspecting in their human relationships and consequently endangered under present conditions. They assume that… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to exaggerate the adverse influence of the precepts and practices of religion upon the status and happiness of woman.… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner Copy Share Image
In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“Babylon was the government that had outlawed them, the police that had pummeled and killed them. Babylon was the church that damned… — Safiya Sinclair Copy Share Image
In the early period of Left struggles, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, there were many different trajectories for the… — Vijay Prashad 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
“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.” — Audre Lorde 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
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
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
I will never apologize for standing up against oppression and injustice in Israel or anywhere else. — Ilhan Omar Copy Share Image
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
It is imperative for US to parent our children and educate them outside of the school systems, as our education system was… — T.I 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
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
“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
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
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
“...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
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds. — Ezra Pound 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