“What does our commitment to nonviolence mean as citizens of one of the most powerful and oppressive nations in recorded history?” — Mary Jo Bowman Copy Share Image
There are things that you can do on an individual level, even as you continue to fight oppression systemically, that make things… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
We cannot forget that we are a nation founded by refugees who were fleeing oppression and often fearful for their lives. — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Socialists cannot achieve their great aim without fighting against all oppression of nations. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The Bible cares about the systems that create oppression. We see this in the Exodus all the way to Jesus' interactions with… — Sho Baraka Copy Share Image
Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment,… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
Let me tell you humans something. You are not fighters. You don’t have what it takes to actually change your current living… — Charles Lee Copy Share Image
Human rights are particularly cherished by the West, which has never acknowledged economic rights. Human rights mean freedom from politcal oppression, tyranny… — Jeremy Seabrook Copy Share Image
You can be poor, middle class, or rich - it doesn't matter. The black card will still confer upon you an entire… — Candace Owens Copy Share Image
If I had a large amount of money I should certainly found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. Race… — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Honey, I've lived long enough to know that begging your oppressors to spare you never works. You either fight back, or remind… — Farah Naz Rishi Copy Share Image
When any government, or church for that matter, undertakes to say to it's subjects, this you may not read, this you must… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“The 'Manifesto' being our joint production, I consider myself bound to state that the fundamental proposition which forms its nucleus belongs to… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people call my way of speaking ranting. Why are you always ranting and screaming, they ask. But here’s the thing…the reason… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
“As long as we continue to search for enemies anywhere but inside ourselves, there will always be a Middle East problem. Religion… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
My hatred is precious. I don't want to waste it on those who are colluding in their own oppression. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore. — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression — John Locke Copy Share Image
From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression. — Zainab Salbi Copy Share Image
“Her friends, comrades…they were like family, and to see the change that had come over them all was just another painful reminder… — Victoria Lynn Copy Share Image
To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived. — Margaret Mead 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
A right to jury trial is granted to criminal defendants in order to prevent oppression by the Government. — Byron White Copy Share Image
I like to be able to raise people's consciousness, yes. And to remind that those of us involved in the receiving end… — Wes Studi Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Bug and Tony should have been allies. But any successful structure of domination always gets the weak to reject each other.” — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind.… — Ray Bradbury 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
“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
Political scientists almost everywhere have promoted the expansion of government power. They have functioned as the clergy of oppression. — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
