If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of… — Susan Brownmiller Copy Share Image
Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor,… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus. — Richard Pryor Copy Share Image
To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed. — Ali Meshkini Copy Share Image
Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
It's almost impossible to separate the actions, or it's also, it's almost impossible to separate the oppression and exploitation, criminal oppression and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had him out of… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image