The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
Let our object be - our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And by the blessing of God, may… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and… — Nathanael Greene Copy Share Image
It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of… — Benjamin Banneker Copy Share Image
Russia is now very far from being a communist country, but when I walked around Moscow, I kept glimpsing these haunting images.… — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
Feminists have convinced themselves that any difference between men and women is oppression and that women in the United States are an… — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Look, people need to conform the external reality they face daily with this subjective feeling they likewise experience constantly. To do this… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
It is my belief that in our mad world where there is so much pain, rivalry, hatred, violence, inequality, and oppression, it… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without… — Benjamin Harvey Hill Copy Share Image
“There’s a general sense now that children’s rights, children’s needs, children’s wants and desires have taken on too prominent a place in… — Judith Warner Copy Share Image
[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated… — Leonid Brezhnev Copy Share Image
Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor;… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There are a lot of leaders that talk about ending things like oppression - whether it's discrimination or getting a job -… — Boots Riley Copy Share Image
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Victims becoming torturers is such a classic historical pattern that we could formulate, regarding any revolution whatever, this iron law : combat… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values,… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man,… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
[T]he powers granted by the proposed Constitution are the gift of the people, and may be resumed by them when perverted to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think violence is part of the struggle against oppression. If something bad happens to these people [animal researchers], it will discourage… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
I am in love with this world . . . I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
It's less to do about me - 'Hey, I'm black and it hurts my feelings; it's a symbol of slavery and oppression'… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
We're used to saying that women in other cultures are oppressed, but the question that I had when making the film was:… — Maimouna Doucoure Copy Share Image
I say violence is necessary. Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie. Americans taught the… — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
It's just not funny to disrespect other people's beliefs, backgrounds, cultures, or identities when those are deeply rooted in longstanding oppression. Jokes… — Franchesca Ramsey Copy Share Image
Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We may see how miraculously God defends our people, and makes us hope that, in spite of the malice of our enemies,… — William the Silent Copy Share Image
“[A]s long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The core of liberation theology is profoundly "theologal" - that is, rooted in the very nature of God. You see, there's an… — Mev Puleo Copy Share Image
...Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessness in the past, despite allthe injustices that… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
![“[T]he man who, in the concrete pressure of a struggle for national independence by a single people, had the coolness, forecast, and capacity to introduce into a merely revolutionary document, an abstract truth, applicable to all men and all times, and so to embalm it there, that to-day, and in all…” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c56/abraham-lincoln-88_abstract_t-he-man-who-in-the-concrete-pressure-of_1336960.png)
![“[T]he powers granted by the proposed Constitution are the gift of the people, and may be resumed by them when perverted to their oppression, and every power not granted thereby remains with the people.” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0ff/james-madison-373_constitution_t-he-powers-granted-by-the-proposed-cons_3012358.png)
![“I think violence is part of the struggle against oppression. If something bad happens to these people [animal researchers], it will discourage others. It is inevitable that violence will be used in the struggle and that it will be effective.” quote by Jerry Vlasak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d40/jerry-vlasak-20536_animal_i-think-violence-is-part-of-the-struggle_3172154.jpg)
![“[A]s long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if meaningful.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6e7/noam-chomsky-42_coercion_a-s-long-as-individuals-are-compelled-to_2063768.jpg)
