An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor. — Lerone Bennett, Jr Copy Share Image
“How is it called freedom if it is limited by those with a history of oppressing you?” — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
Still, corruption and oppression are far too common threats to the democratic society. — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Sometimes their oppression of emotion and the weird way it comes out is more interesting than painting it in bold primary colors. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The loss of objectivity in moral thought does not lead to liberation. It leads to oppression. Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
For many gay and bisexual men of color, economic inequalities add to the pernicious effects of oppression and homophobia. — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
“Generational oppression begins when what is meant to be transferred to one offspring has been taken over by reason of oppression.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Today, as never before, the issue is clearly defined-liberty and freedom of choice, or oppression and subjugation for the individual and for… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, to call someone 'black' was an insult, a curse word, something that made you fight. But to… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
When you finally embrace the gift of your sexual orientation it IS the end; the end of shame, fear and oppression. You… — Anthony Venn-Brown Copy Share Image
The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We need to stop playing Privilege or Oppression Olympics because we'll never get anywhere until we find more effective ways of talking… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks they stand apart from society and defies all which govern its existence has less in common with the lone… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
You don’t know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don’t know that the rod,… — Gustav Landauer Copy Share Image
“This is how we are being governed right now, people. Six conservative justices. They're just doing what they want. And what they… — Shellen Lubin Copy Share Image
The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“What I’m talking about is the order of chosen men who inherit power. From Pharaohs and kings to bankers and executives. Their… — Nick Drnaso Copy Share Image
“In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came… — Alison Weir Copy Share Image
No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Spiritual models for me are the communities of Tibetans living in exile in India, or the banjars of Bali, which exist in… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“After all, the task of the humanists is surely not that of pitting their slogans against the slogans of the oppressors, with… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Oppression is the seed of power; you will plant it against yourself” — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
Refrain at all times from such Foods as cannot be procured without violence and oppression. — Thomas Tryon Copy Share Image
“It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.” — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
A private faith that does not act in the face of oppression is no faith at all. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
