Whether it's microaggressions or blatant racism, it's always been a fight. We've been fighting oppression for 400 years and it will continue… — Lexi Underwood Copy Share Image
Even today a crude sort of persecution is all that is required to create an honorable name for any sect, no matter… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“As it is, the profusion of commodities is a genuine and powerful compensation for oppression.” — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
I see myself as a person who is pushing back and fighting against oppression in all its forms, centering racial and economic… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“But there was so much injustice. As soon as one field of hatred and oppression was burned, another crop came into harvest.… — Walidah Imarisha Copy Share Image
God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed. — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
If the National Football League, an organization notoriously known for not standing behind their athletes of color, can come out to make… — Rachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“I wake up, I feel the inescapable oppression of the sunlight pouring through my bedroom window, and I am struck by the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A free man - is a man who is free internally. As all other people, externally he or she depends on society.… — Simon Soloveychik Copy Share Image
“I hold that in every situation of injustice and oppression, the Christian--who cannot deal with it by violence--must make himself completely a… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“No pedagogy which is truly liberating can remain distant from the oppressed by treating them as unfortunates and by presenting for their… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Let me tell you about gods," said Wiggin. "No matter how smart or strong you are, there's always somebody smarter or stronger,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Although until recently the Church was closely linked to the established order, it is beginning to take a different attitude regarding the… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
“Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
My idea of philosophy is that if it is not relevant to human problems, if it does not tell us how we… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“(...) psychiatrists today recognize the contortionist's act that was required of women in an age when they were expected to stifle their… — Colette Dowling Copy Share Image
...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas,… — Pope Pius X Copy Share Image
Hence, when some members of the Iranian diaspora, especially women at the moment, use different tropes including the trope of the veil… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression! — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: His faults lie open to the laws; let them, Not you, correct him. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“When we place ourselves in a position of judgment, then we turn ourselves into oppressors. Healthy self-esteem cannot exist side-by-side with oppression… — Julia A. Boyd Copy Share Image
When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the… — Alan King Copy Share Image
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it. — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
“She drove me home in silence. Back then, there was always silence. I couldn't speak up, I realize now, because protest requires… — Deborah Jackson Taffa Copy Share Image
I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of… — Elie Wiesel 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
“...from the oppression of such freedom who would not welcome the liberation of confinement?” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
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
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
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