Religion has gotten a bad rap for good reasons. Often, there are a lot of people - women, LBGT, and others -… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
Planted by your care? No! Your oppression planted them in America... nourished by your indulgence? They grew by your neglect of them...… — Isaac Barre Copy Share Image
To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to… — William Powell Copy Share Image
Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed?… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Radical expansions of power are often introduced in this way, by persuading people that they affect just a specific, discrete group. Governments… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The abiding western dominology can with religion sanction identify anything dark, profound, or fluid with a revolting chaos, an evil to be… — Catherine Keller Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't worry about it too much, son. Certainly not about the peasants and the servants. They don't feel things as we… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never… — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
With abolition, it's necessary to destroy systems of oppression. But it's equally necessary to put at the forefront our conversations about creation.… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
As Co-Chair of the bipartisan Congressional Uyghur Caucus, I will continue to stand up, call out, and push back against the Chinese… — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn… — Ismail Haniyeh Copy Share Image
Thus I came to condemn capitalism, not through any oppression endured by me personally, but through that very deification of efficiency which… — Anna Louise Strong Copy Share Image
The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who… — William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield Copy Share Image
We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the… — Dan Coats Copy Share Image
We are living in tumultuous times, and our focus should be fighting against the oppression and injustices that are against us -… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
“People force a despised minority to live in squalor, which makes them seem animalistic and subhuman, which encourages the dominant group to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Homophobia, racism, and sexism are all rooted in the same oppression that causes a group of people to internalize the oppression they've… — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
“I want to sharpen my pride on what strengthens me, my witness on what haunts me. Whatever we name ourselves, however we… — Eli Clare Copy Share Image
“Violence does not necessarily take people by the throat and strangle them. Usually it demands no more than an ultimate allegiance from… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Even if it's a definition that feels oppressive to us, that oppression can be inspiring because it helps us push up against… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When it comes to the discussion of oppression in America, we've been experiencing the worst of it for a long time. What's… — Chokwe Lumumba Copy Share Image
As an African American woman and the descendant of slaves, I do not condone any form of racism or oppression. I most… — Phaedra Parks Copy Share Image
Like many resisting oppression, Palestinian Gandhis are likely to be found in prisons after being repressed by Israeli soldiers or police or… — Yousef Munayyer Copy Share Image
Black Revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. We are shaped by our oppression. We are… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
“...it is not really the difference the oppressor fears so much as the similarity. He fears he will discover in himself the… — Cherrie Morago Copy Share Image
Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation... in the face of tyranny, cruelty, oppression, extremism, sometimes there is only… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Women hating men is not an aberrant or unexpected response, but rather natural response to being controlled, and to being viewed as… — Coleen Kearon Copy Share Image
Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
