A vote for George Wallace is a vote for the past and oppression. — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Suppression is a form of social and intellectual terrorism which results in oppression.” — Jackson Taviri Copy Share Image
Woe is the man who uses fear and oppression to bear the heart of an opened mind. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“If there had been a little less home dissension, there would have been a great deal less foreign oppression.” — Mary Frances Cusack Copy Share Image
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. It has kept mankind in slavery and oppression. The Church and the State have… — August Bebel Copy Share Image
To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate… — Jean O'Leary Copy Share Image
With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor. It bids us break the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It is essential that the sufferings of Jews become worse this will assist in realization of our plans I have an excellent… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
The God of the Bible is the God of liberation rather than oppression; a God of justice rather than injustice; a God… — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not… — Hugh Masekela Copy Share Image
In the final analysis, the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud… — Anonymous 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
“The specific character of [women's] oppression cannot be explained away by equating different situations through superficial and childish simplifications[:] It is true… — Thomas Sankara 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
“When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
People sometimes say that we will know feminism has done its job when half the CEOs are women. That’s not feminism; to… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
"Oppression" or "systems of oppression" operate as a shorthand terms in much writing and speaking so that we do not have to… — Dean Spade Copy Share Image
Christianity was created by some decadent and degenerated Romans as a tool of oppression, in the late Roman era, and it should… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
“How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“The unfailing rhythm of the seasons, the ever-turning wheel of life, the four facets of the earth which are lit in turn… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image