Ashamed Quote by Desmond Tutu

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

— Desmond Tutu

We should not become so ashamed of the disappointments and travesties of democracy that we become ashamed of the idea itself. It is the…

— Marilyn Ferguson

If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

— Audre Lorde

We should not oppose something just because it was appropriated by the wrong guys; rather, we should think about how to reappropriate it.

— Slavoj Žižek

We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act…

— Giacomo Leopardi

We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right.

— Anonymous

Every time that we try to lift a problem from our own shoulders, and shift that problem to the hands of the government, to…

— John F. Kennedy

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

— Elsie de Wolfe

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over…

— Franz von Papen

Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make that a…

— Emilia Lanier