Breach Quote by Learned Hand

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting…

— Learned Hand

Be rich in expressing yourself in a noble way and you shall never be oppressed without those who can help noticing. Oppression in silence…

— Frank Matobo

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

— Jimmy Carter

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you…

— Stanley Fish

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more…

— Hosea Ballou

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 be uncomfortable with the growing gaps in our society, and we cannot allow ourselves to become desensitized to these injustices.

— Ayanna Pressley

I also acknowledge that prejudice runs very deep in our society. And, in the real world, discrimination rears its ugly head in the shadows,…

— Joe Biden

The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own…

— Andrea Dworkin

Anything that you are achieving that undermines and threatens systems of power will meet with oppression. Systems of power don't say 'thank you.' What's…

— Noam Chomsky

There are things that you can do on an individual level, even as you continue to fight oppression systemically, that make things a little…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Conventional opinions fit so comfortably into the dominant paradigm as to be seen not as opinions but as statements of fact, as 'the nature…

— Michael Parenti