There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
John Lennon imagined a world filled with peace and love. Martin Luther King dreamt of a world free from racial discrimination and… — Jon Lajoie Copy Share Image
In an age where there's so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not… — Edmund Morgan Copy Share Image
The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
He[Napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Starting from the very reasonable, but unfortunately revolutionary concept that social practices which threaten the continuation of life on Earth must be… — Judi Bari Copy Share Image
“It’s not that men and women are identical; it’s just that they are so near identical in all but the political abuses… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Thus, if there exists a law which sanctions slavery or monopoly, oppression or robbery, in any form whatever, it must not even… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“The 'Manifesto' being our joint production, I consider myself bound to state that the fundamental proposition which forms its nucleus belongs to… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Of course, I could never suggest that only poor people are misogynistic; too many rich folk are just as hateful of women… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
A number of Iraqis told us they had welcomed the U.S. forces as liberators initially but in the intervening months, they had… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
I think there is going to be a large paradigm shift in a few years, and it could either be to a… — Dan Deacon Copy Share Image
It really is systematic oppression that is so deeply ingrained into the very fabric of American society... Shedding a light on it,… — Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman Copy Share Image
“Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to… — Monique Wittig Copy Share Image
We know what totalitarian looks like, we know what oppression looks like, we know what the dumb culture of totalitarianism smells like.… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also. Every outcry against the oppression of some… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“When a people share a common oppression, certain kinds of skills and joint defenses are developed. And if you survive you survive… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Horizontal hostility may be expressed in sibling rivalry or in competitive dueling which wrecks not only office tranquility or suburban domesticity but… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
Real liberty exists only there where exploitation has been annihilated, where no oppression of some peoples by others exists, where there is… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and… — Leopold Kohr Copy Share Image
It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power - power to oppress others. The… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Sadly, the Left is no longer liberal at all, for it has traded in individualism for collectivism, thus placing us into an… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
Cultural patterns of oppression are not only interrelated but are bound together and influenced by the intersectional systems of society. Examples of… — Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Copy Share Image
Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
If Saddam Hussein committed crimes such as political oppression against the Iraqi people, it should be resolved legally in a fair and… — Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of the kind of political correctness that is about not promoting prejudice. But some people in America are offended… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child ... No slave was ever so much the property of… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
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