There is more racial integration in American life and many more people of color serving as elected officials and corporate leaders than… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
It is the curse of minorities in this power-worshipping world that either from fear or from an uncertain policy of expedience they… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I am always revolted when Islamic leaders, from Afghanistan or elsewhere, deny the very existence of female oppression, avoid the issue by… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Mainly, it’s not that there are things you can’t say. It’s that there are things you can’t say without the risk that… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Ironically, there is a history of black/Irish communion here in the states; Irish and African American brothers and sisters have often found… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Well, do you suppose I made up my mind then that what I had seen was something sickening? Not a bit of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Although until recently the Church was closely linked to the established order, it is beginning to take a different attitude regarding the… — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
“Babylon was the government that had outlawed them, the police that had pummeled and killed them. Babylon was the church that damned… — Safiya Sinclair Copy Share Image
In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
“It is difficult to exaggerate the adverse influence of the precepts and practices of religion upon the status and happiness of woman.… — Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner Copy Share Image
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The main problem with cultural appropriation comes from dominant groups 'borrowing' from marginalized groups who face oppression or have been stigmatized for… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage,… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
By Oppression's woes and pains! By your sons in servile chains! We will drain our dearest veins, But they shall be free!… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression... Our endeavors must be about the liberation of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
“When people are kept in abject poverty and illiteracy while others grow rich and “develop their personalities” at the former’s expense we… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
We definitely experience racism in England and different levels of oppression as well. Anywhere affected by colonialism there's certain kinds of race… — Jodie Turner-Smith Copy Share Image
“You look at us and you see oppression; we see stability and harmony. You see corruption; we see ties of family, friendship,… — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Well, when you think about it black American culture evolved over three and a half centuries. Every minute under which they lived… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
“And if there is no objective or universal truth, then any claim to have objective truth will be treated as nothing but… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Here in the US, we've built this insane infrastructure of oppression. When it's not run by a Barack Obama - who, by… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
Traditionally Marxism attracts the oppressed. This, however, is not the case in the Arab nation... The socialist programs in Arab history did… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
