“As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time. — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
“Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression. — Cordae Copy Share Image
Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression. — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them'; — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
“...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
If a jury have not the right to judge between the government and those who disobey its laws, and resist its oppressions,… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The Enlightenment attacked religion - Christianity, mainly - for two reasons: that it was a set of ideological delusions, and that it… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Kill me if you will, I am not afraid to die; and I have endured so much oppression that I am weary… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
In effect, Saudi Arabia legitimizes fundamentalism, religious discrimination, intolerance and the oppression of women. Saudi women not only can't drive, but are… — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Through its appropriation of "texts of terror" and especially through the application of those texts to the Jews, the Christian religion created… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Cubans understand that theirs is a country that provides sanctuary for people fleeing oppression. As a nation, they are very proud of… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
“...we in the West constitute a society based on violence, oppression, misery, and domination that has led to an ongoing societal trauma… — A. Breeze Harper Copy Share Image
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Often black people, especially non-gay folk, become enraged when they hear a white person who is gay suggest homosexuality is synonymous with… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
In the west, Apollo and Dionysus strive for victory. Apollo makes the boundary lines that are civilization but that lead to convention,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Driven by that extraordinary oppression which falls on every human being when, childhood over, he begins to divine that he is fated… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“Liberals stand up for victims of oppression and exclusion. They fight to break down arbitrary barriers (such as those based on race,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
