Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Christian ideology has contributed no little to the oppression of woman. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in who suffered the most. I'm interested in people getting over it. — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
I am fighting a fight against oppression where the poor and women are being violated — Mukhtar Ma'i Copy Share Image
I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me! — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“Women prefer to serve the present and are afraid of age; they are in the grip of youth of their dreams. Age… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
We must ask the high cadres ... When you suppressed the rights of others to express freely their political views, did you… — Wei Jingsheng Copy Share Image
Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in… — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
I think about freedom as not only as the absence of oppression but also the presence of justice and joy. — DeRay Mckesson Copy Share Image
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“The flames had passed over those flattened blades and consumed their heather neighbours on either side while they themselves had remained, made… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
I think being born in America and growing up exclusively within the American boundaries of race and race oppression is a very… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Through my school years, I learned more about slavery, anti-black racism, and oppression in the U.S., and my blackness could no longer… — Luvvie Ajayi Copy Share Image
At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. I said it was wrong and immoral… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals… — Bob Torres Copy Share Image
“The concept of fourth-generation wars simply refers to the use of disinformation, funding subversive N.G.O.s, and spreading rumours as a method for… — Maged Mandour Copy Share Image
Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our… — Trista Hendren Copy Share Image
“But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually degraded and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What is amazing and revolutionary today will be oppressive tomorrow.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression. — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression. — Cordae Copy Share Image
Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Covetousness gives birth to violence, while violence gives birth to oppression.” — 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
“As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“All oppression creates a state of war. And this is no exception.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
