Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another. — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our… — Rza Copy Share Image
When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth - they start to reject oppression. — Maria Alyokhina Copy Share Image
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and… — Cherrie Moraga Copy Share Image
Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn. — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering in the heat of injustice and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Koreans love to dance; they love to sing. If you actually know Koreans, you see how absurd the stereotype of the 'Asian… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
People should decide on the books' meanings for themselves. They'll find a story that attacks such things as cruelty, oppression, intolerance, unkindness,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Nobody in this country goes around saying: 'I'm feeling very oppressed by the E.U.' Well, one or two people do, but they're… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
“Joy is meant to be felt; its not meant to be detained. It is meant to be shared with others; not to… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Society is, always has been and always will be a structure for the exploitation and oppression of the majority through systems of… — Richard Morgan Copy Share Image
... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
“Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I'll call mine Yarvard. Even though she cannot attend Yarvard because… — Rosemarie Garland Thomson Copy Share Image
In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes… In mid-nineteenth-… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
“It’s not that men and women are identical; it’s just that they are so near identical in all but the political abuses… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be… — Judi Bari Copy Share Image
It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Of course, I could never suggest that only poor people are misogynistic; too many rich folk are just as hateful of women… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Niggerization is the result of oppression -- and it doesn't just apply to the black people. Old people, poor people, and students… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
“It's painful fighting for freedom. Freedom has demands. To begin, we must admit we're slaves.” — Darnell Lamont Walker Copy Share Image
Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom. — Michael Flatley Copy Share Image
Wilberforce and the band of abolitionists knew that a private faith that did not act in the face of oppression was no… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward… — Lajos Kossuth 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
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The inconvenience and the suffering of any children or any family members pales in comparison to the suffering and oppression that goes… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression.… — Neil Tennant Copy Share Image
I can be all pissed off at the oppression of the state, but what does that really mean? Well, it's the tacit… — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
It is evil things that we will be fighting against-brute force, bad faith, injustice, oppression and persecution-and against them I am certain… — Neville Chamberlain Copy Share Image
As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
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