Accommodations Quote by Paulo Freire

There is a feeling of personal dignity and independence in grasping, literally, the power to back your refusal to be a target of a…

— John Longenecker

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although…

— Frederick Douglass

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

— Blaise Pascal

Part of understanding the notion of Justice is to recognize the disproportions among which we live...it takes an awful lot of living with the…

— John O'Donohue

The struggle for justice should never be abandoned because of the apparent overwhelming power of those who seem invincible in their determination to hold…

— Howard Zinn

Whoever, to whatever purpose or extent, initiates the use of force, is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider…

— Ayn Rand

People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we…

— Maggie Kuhn

Violence in any form is a tragic expression of our unmet needs.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.

— Rollo May

You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.

— Chinua Achebe

And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the…

— John Locke