Absence Quote by Bell Hooks

“As your presence here, means the absence of my sanity.”

— Ika Natassa

Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“So you see, being pathetic has also been my normalcy, as your presence here, means the absence of my sanity.”

— Ika Natassa

A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common…

— Bell Hooks

I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what…

— Marwan Barghouti

“The oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this…

— Paulo Freire

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time,…

— Sheila Rowbotham

The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have…

— Robert Briffault

The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows…

— Andrea Dworkin

Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in…

— Tim Wise

The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to…

— Sheila Rowbotham