pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Voter ID laws are the most potent form of voter suppression legislation. — Jason Kander Copy Share Image
“Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life--to be tame or to be wanton. To be… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“... how terrible is the pain of the mind and heart when the freedom of mankind is suppressed!” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to… — Alexander Meiklejohn Copy Share Image
As for those who think the Arab world promises freedom, the briefest study of its routine traditional treatment of blacks (slavery) and… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave,… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
Probably it's insufficient to say that behind the governments, behind the apparatus of the State, there is the dominant class; one must… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
It is a travesty for anyone who is elected to office, who serves in an elective office, to engage in voter suppression. — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
The argument against the persecution of opinion does not depend upon what the excuse for persecution may be. The argument is that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“All children are curious and I wonder by what process this trait becomes developed in some and suppressed in others. I suspect… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists,… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
“But laugh?" He pressed the flat of his hand against my stomach. "Here lives laugh." He ran his finger straight up to… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners. — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
