We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
“The idea is that the woman's heritage and background are just as important as the man's. Many women see taking a man's… — Rhoda Janzen Copy Share Image
As American Jews and descendants of immigrants, we never forget where our families came from or what members of our community experienced.… — Jan Schakowsky Copy Share Image
The fear that we cannot grow beyond whatever distortions we may find within ourselves keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, externally… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ...Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of… — Linda Gordon Copy Share Image
“of other women. Oppression is most powerful when internalized and self-imposed. Self-oppression (knowing your “place”) becomes a passport to acceptance by the… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne;… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin,… — Roy Ayers Copy Share Image
The immigration system in America today has been misrepresented, misunderstood to mean: "Anybody who wants to come can come. The world is… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“And, sincerely, we respect her stance. The Liberal Rednecks are all about standing up for your beliefs even when they’re hateful, bigoted,… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
I wish you would stop and seriously consider, as a broad and long-term feminist political strategy, the conversion of women to a… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
“And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates the soul of South Africa is… — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“It is amazing how dispiriting it can be to enter a learning environment and to be made immediately to suppress your own… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassion…that the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Here in the US, we've built this insane infrastructure of oppression. When it's not run by a Barack Obama - who, by… — Ted Rall Copy Share Image
“And if there is no objective or universal truth, then any claim to have objective truth will be treated as nothing but… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Laughter is something we have against oppression and oppressive people. Dictators hate people who laugh at them. It's easy for them to… — Burhan Sonmez Copy Share Image
Unless the mass retains sufficient control over those entrusted with the powers of their government, these will be perverted to their own… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Traditionally Marxism attracts the oppressed. This, however, is not the case in the Arab nation... The socialist programs in Arab history did… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
“You look at us and you see oppression; we see stability and harmony. You see corruption; we see ties of family, friendship,… — Michael Gruber Copy Share Image
We definitely experience racism in England and different levels of oppression as well. Anywhere affected by colonialism there's certain kinds of race… — Jodie Turner-Smith Copy Share Image
“When people are kept in abject poverty and illiteracy while others grow rich and “develop their personalities” at the former’s expense we… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
The Green Shore is an engrossing novel about political oppression, played out on an intimate family scale. Bakopoulos charts the subtle, gnawing… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Well, when you think about it black American culture evolved over three and a half centuries. Every minute under which they lived… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man; and these rights are liberty,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
