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
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
“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
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
“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
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
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. — Paulo Freire 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
...all human beings have a right, and duty, to be joyful. Anything that thwarts this spiritual human right goes against the very… — Agnivesh Copy Share Image
The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In fact, the religious right consists of an alliance of several groups that, without experiencing anything like the oppression visited on black… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene.… — Damian Marley Copy Share Image
In poor environment, I find great inspiration. Many of the men and women whom I admire as artists, the things they write,… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
As attorney general of Missouri, I am my state's chief law enforcement officer. I swore an oath to uphold the rule of… — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
We are opposed to all cruelty, so as advocates of non-violence, opponents of oppression, people who abhor the cruelty inherent in slaughtering… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that,… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
“Somewhere, on the edge of consciousness, there is what I call a mythical norm , which each one of us within our… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish.… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Puerto Ricans are Americans. We've been American citizens since 1917. We fought the same battles, made the same sacrifices. We've lost our… — Nelson Antonio Denis Copy Share Image
“At first glance it seems strange that the attitude of the anti-Semite can be equated with that of the negrophobe. It was… — Frantz Fanon 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
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
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
I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare. — Erica Jong 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
The more that I learn about what's going on, it's really hard to ignore the oppression that people are actually going through. — Malcolm Jenkins Copy Share Image
Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“All we have is now, this moment. If you live in the future, you’ll miss things, right here, right now, and you’ll… — Jessica Therrien Copy Share Image
