Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule…… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“This is the case in every society: those who pose no challenge are rarely targeted by oppressive measures, and from their perspective,… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
You are Christians; find out what is true and false in Christianity - and you will then find out what is true.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better… — Tatyana Tolstaya Copy Share Image
In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes… In mid-nineteenth-… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
“Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I'll call mine Yarvard. Even though she cannot attend Yarvard because… — Rosemarie Garland Thomson Copy Share Image
“At first glance it seems strange that the attitude of the anti-Semite can be equated with that of the negrophobe. It was… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
“As long as we continue to search for enemies anywhere but inside ourselves, there will always be a Middle East problem. Religion… — Mosab Hassan Yousef Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Sometimes, people call my way of speaking ranting. Why are you always ranting and screaming, they ask. But here’s the thing…the reason… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
“Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“If we’re to be successful fighting oppression—whether based on race, class, species, or gender identity—we’re going to need to fight the heart… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
I think it's important not to view Martin Luther King Jr. in a narrow political manner. His fundamental commitment is to a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
In the industry I work in, women have had a lot of oppression. So, I don't like to stick to the status… — Leah Williamson Copy Share Image
Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I know we have to have people of good conscience who stand up against oppression. I know we have to have people… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The impious man, who sells his country's freedom Makes all the guilt of tyranny his own. His are her slaughters, her oppressions… — Henry Martyn Copy Share Image
Rastafarianism and reggae music have always kind of resonated with me. Those ideas of redemption, liberation and overcoming oppression through music, weed… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The moment we choose to love, we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love, we begin… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
[The disarming of citizens] has a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces… — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
Only a minority of science fiction dystopias attempt to plumb the real existential roots of oppression, the flaws in humanity's nature that… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“Oh! What honour for the female sex! It is perfectly obvious that God has special regard for it when all these wretched… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
The cost in human lives and suffering is so high that we all have to work to end violence and oppression once… — Federico Mayor Zaragoza Copy Share Image
“They divided people into make-believe groups, arranged in a hierarchy. The upper levels enjoyed privileges and power, while the lower ones suffered… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is… — J. Stalin Copy Share Image
But that the people are stronger than the government, and will resist in extreme cases, our governments would be little or nothing… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
An application of judicial power that does not rest on facts is worse than mindless, it is inherently dangerous. If its deployment… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
It is not enough to call yourself a feminist because you are a strong woman. Thatcher was an enemy to feminism, as… — Julie Bindel Copy Share Image
“All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as… — Seyla Benhabib Copy Share Image
Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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