People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
Is word, sound, and powa dat break down de barriers of oppression an drive away transgression an rule equality. — Peter Tosh Copy Share Image
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“No woman is responsible for altering the psyche of her oppressor, even when that psyche is embodied in another woman.” — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity.” — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I walk the city, through its crush of people and its smells: body odour, rotting food, vomit and urine. A cocktail of… — Emma Cameron Copy Share Image
Fear hems us in, stops us from thinking clearly, and prevents us from either challenging oppression or engaging calmly with the impersonal… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think that because human difference for so long, in all its various forms, has been the root of so much oppression,… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
As poets, we don't accept oppression; we are about a freedom of spirit, or whatever you want to call it. I think… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Cubans understand that theirs is a country that provides sanctuary for people fleeing oppression. As a nation, they are very proud of… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution [of… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Through its appropriation of "texts of terror" and especially through the application of those texts to the Jews, the Christian religion created… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions,… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
If they hear people running for - president... despite all the other problems that George W. Bush made after 9/11 when he… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“In this land I have made myself sick with silence In this land I have wandered, lost In this land I hunkered… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
“They [feminists] share the instinct for tyranny and destruction - and they are filled with self-loathing. In the end, leftist feminists yearn… — Jamie Glazov Copy Share Image
Feminist effort to end patriarchal domination should be of primary concern precisely because it insists on the eradication of exploitation and oppression… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“It has to do with conquest, with oppression. If you’re robbing somebody, oppressing them, dictating their lives, it’s a very rare person… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“To apprehend myself as victim in a sexist society is to know that there are few places where I can hide, that… — Sandra Bartky Lee Copy Share Image
Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Be rich in expressing yourself in a noble way and you shall never be oppressed without those who can help noticing. Oppression… — Frank Matobo Copy Share Image
Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don't be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don't… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
“You who are Prejudice, Abuse, Ignominy, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, beware of the wide-eyed urchin. He will grow up.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I told my cellmates about the oppression of the whites and apartheid. I helped organize hunger strikes and the like in my… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment,… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion-I've worked with my best friends… — Diane Sawyer Copy Share Image
Racism is systemic: It's oppression that's built into the laws, legislation, into the way neighborhoods are policed, and into job opportunities and… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
I have chosen to kneel because I simply cannot stand for the kind of oppression this country is allowing against its own… — Megan Rapinoe Copy Share Image
Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression. — Fatos Nano Copy Share Image
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to… — Theodore Bikel Copy Share Image
The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image