The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The oppression of it, the sense of helplessness, and really being part of a system and a bureaucracy that is arbitrary. I… — Jenji Kohan Copy Share Image
Black racism is a myth created by whites to ease their guilt feelings. As long as whites can be assured that blacks… — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
The reason I joined the struggle against Apartheid was because you had this system of oppression, which affected everybody who was black.… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
At a certain point in their existential experience, the oppressed feel an irresistible attraction toward the oppressor and his way of life.… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Walking into the studio making 'Scared Hearts Club,' it was important for us as artists to write a joyful record, but using… — Mark Foster 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 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
Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression. The argument goes that,… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
There is no genuine democracy without an informed public. While there are no guarantees that a critical education will prompt individuals to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Most of Marx's predictions have failed to materialize, and his labor theory of value and other ideas have been proven wrong. Marx… — Mark Skousen 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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 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
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
“Yet, feeling his way, starting by the passive opposition of small thefts, stealing sausage ends and crusts of bread when Signora Squeers… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
Socialism and communism are set up so that a select few elite get most of everything and the rest of society is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“The highest form of resistance is to enjoy life, even in the face of oppression. If you can find a way to… — Morgan Rice Copy Share Image
You ask what I have found and far and wide I go, Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew, The lovers… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“Why did Irish people vote to introduce gay marriage? Because we know what discrimination feels like and if we can take the… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the people ... and ... becomes an instrument in… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
“Of course, during the centuries the justice was always a rather elastic term, but always till now and “everywhere the justice is… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
It is easy to understand why the law is used by the legislator to destroy in varying degrees among the rest of… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
One of the things is when you think, "Wait, I'm fearful of retaliation, I'm fearful of oppression because of someone who is… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Some live for their own joy and pleasure. Some live to ease the burdens of others. Then there are those who seem… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
