English is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Intersectionalists are the ones responsible for dreaming up new, ever more bizarre categories of oppression.” — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
Time was the only variable in every equation of power and oppression--how long before the pot boiled over. — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
It is not a Buddhist approach to say that if everyone practiced Buddhism, the world would be a better place. Wars and… — Sulak Sivaraksa Copy Share Image
Oppression is not limited to people of color, but if you feel guilty that's something you should confront. — Misha Green Copy Share Image
I wish I was a mirror, that every rude thing done to me or every careless word I hear would just bounce… — Meow Opre Copy Share Image
The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
This religion and the Bible require of woman everything, and give her nothing. They ask her support and her love, and repay… — Helen H. Gardener Copy Share Image
If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical,… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power as well as my primary oppressions come as a result… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
In fact, if law were restricted to protecting all persons, all liberties, and all properties; if law were nothing more than the… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
It's almost impossible to separate the actions, or it's also, it's almost impossible to separate the oppression and exploitation, criminal oppression and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Does the global Left - as well as the Israeli Left - truly not care about the horrific Taliban regime, the terrible… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
[Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject… — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
We will not forget that Liberty has made her home here, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected...A stream of light shall… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Despite the perma-shock in which many of us have lived our entire lives, with alarms in our ears made only more shrill… — Sarahjane Blum Copy Share Image
Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
I couldn't stand for a flag that represented tyranny and oppression. Not just from a domestic perspective but from a global one.… — Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf Copy Share Image
“In a popular state the inhabitants are divided into certain classes,” Montesquieu affirmed in a Marxian manner a century before Marx! So,… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
“And just as the functions of the bodily organs of plants and animals cannot be arbitrarily altered, so that, for example, one… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“But they can rule by fraud, and by fraud eventually acquire access to the tools they need to finish the job of… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A nation of slaves is always prepared to applaud the clemency of their master who, in the abuse of absolute power, does… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Without compromise repression would be defeated. Just as some cancers feed on hormones, compromise becomes the hormone of oppression. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression — Sheila Jeffrys Copy Share Image
The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“As I'd seen over and again, people who see themselves as victims sometimes don't notice when they become oppressors.” — Souad Mekhennet Copy Share Image
“Just because our world is wrong doesn’t mean people don’t enjoy the binds which are holding them in. At least their binds… — Rebecca Crunden Copy Share Image
I believe that God has endowed men with certain inalienable rights as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and that no… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We must talk about how sexism and patriarchy operate in conjunction with state violence. Until we're honest about that, and do something… — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image