“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
I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
This is how systems of oppression work: The violence, discrimination, and stigma I face as a woman compounds the violence, discrimination, and… — Sarah McBride 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
“(...) 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
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
“Take terrorism, one example among the methods used in that struggle. We know that leftist tradition condemns terrorism and political assassination. When… — Albert Memmi Copy Share Image
“In Warsaw, you also remember that you are in a Communist-controlled country, though by all accounts the control is now humane and… — Martha Gellhorn 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
Female heterosexuality is not a biological drive or an individual women's erotic attraction or attachment to another human animal which happens to… — Marilyn Frye 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
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
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
No woman should ever lie about another woman. You've violated the sacred covenant between women! How will stabbing one another in the… — John Green Copy Share Image
If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “emergency situation” in which we live is the rule. We must arrive at… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
You don’t know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don’t know that the rod,… — Gustav Landauer Copy Share Image
We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking… — Roxane Gay 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 class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction.” quote by Indira Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3a/indira-gandhi-1113_benediction_mahatma-gandhi-said-that-the-first-presi_1051966.jpg)
