#oppression

It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave them the autonomy to move to the cities to find work ↗

— Sheryl WuDunn

#injustice #oppression #education

The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. ↗

— Paulo Freire

#oppression #community

The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor. ↗

— A.R. Bernard

#oppression #oppression

If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. ↗

— James Madison

#patriot-act #tyranny #war #acting

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#oppression #defeat

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#gives #hate #hope #i #liberation

Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

#am #communist #i #i am #local

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#beneath #born #every #every man #fact

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature. ↗

— Rita Dove

#adversity #almost #begin #being #convey

As there is oppression of the majority such oppression will be fought with increasing hatred. ↗

— Bram Fischer

#hatred #increasing #majority #oppression #such