The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“ABYSS Our country lives Among the dead And dies among the living Sometimes.” — Visar Zhiti Copy Share Image
“Oppression cannot teach justice. That task belongs to empathy.” — Jamie Arpin-Ricci Copy Share Image
The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression. — Gary Clark, Jr Copy Share Image
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
All you violated ones with gentle hearts; You violent dreamers whose cries shout heartbreak — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image
While women across the globe have many differences - language, culture, environment - our similarities are undeniable, and the impact of abuse… — Carre Otis Copy Share Image
“Who can blame slaves for being cunning? They are constantly compelled to resort to it. It is the only weapon of the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
If anything like #MeToo happens, women can come to MNS. We will teach a lesson to accused. Women must raise the voice… — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars… — William Penn Copy Share Image
In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
When forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law, peace is considered already broken. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The term 'just war' is an internal contradiction. War is inherently unjust, and the great challenge of our time is how to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
In fact, the religious right consists of an alliance of several groups that, without experiencing anything like the oppression visited on black… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
...all human beings have a right, and duty, to be joyful. Anything that thwarts this spiritual human right goes against the very… — Agnivesh Copy Share Image
Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging… — Mary Hays Copy Share Image
I am not saying that a female-dominated or Amazon society based on the oppression of men is any more "just" than is… — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
“For the absence of human companionship in bestial forms; the loss of green fields, free to her as to the winds of… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“On Lou's lips a trace of pinot and out of them poured tales of acts of viciousness worthy of the great Lucifer… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“By saying that human issues are more important than non-human issues, that violence to humans is more relevant than violence to animals,… — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“So if the traditions and culture of the Eastern community are blindly compelled to hurt a woman’s dignity, insult and degrade her… — Huda Sharawi Copy Share Image
I don't want to involve myself in the various arguments about why Israel was created . . . . . I want… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
As we blaze it up we see clear to progression. We no deal with oppression. — Julian Marley Copy Share Image
Fascism is fascism. Terrorism is terrorism. Oppression is oppression. — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
“Oppression at the hands of the man with the purple knee bands. Joy comes softly.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others. — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.” — Carla H. Krueger Copy Share Image
“Sign of an abusive system: getting angry at other's real needs.” — Jeff VanVonderen Copy Share Image