Erik Spoelstra

I think it's gonna take a sincere empathy and compassion for people of all races, to really reflect and process on the true history of the black community in this country. The history has been filled with incredible oppression and we really have to acknowledge that, to start to change the lens of how we see true equality.

American Coach

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Russian Writer

James Cromwell

Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.

American Actor

Peter Kropotkin

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

Russian Revolutionary

Jonathan Sacks

If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.

British Clergyman

John McCain

In the real world, as lived and experienced by real people, the demand for human rights and dignity, the longing for liberty and justice and opportunity, the hatred of oppression and corruption and cruelty is reality.

American Politician

Neil Tennant

Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.

English Musician

Tananarive Due

Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or otherworldly experiences - not just stories of history, poverty and oppression.

American Author

Hosea Ballou

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 important.

American Clergyman

Ingrid Newkirk

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

British Activist

Oppression often indicates prolonged mistreatment, not one-time events.

Long-Term Suffering

Oppression involves one group wielding power over another, whether small or vast in number.

Power Imbalance

Oppression can be non-violent, such as denying rights or resources.

Not Always Violent

Oppression in this sense is an internal struggle, often invisible to others.

Emotional Burden

This type of oppression is personal and subjective, varying from person to person.

Personal Affliction

Unlike the first definition, this oppression isn't a direct physical action by others.

Not Physical

This definition implies a barrier against freedom, which can be subtle or explicit.

Freedom Restricted

Oppression may arise from constructed societal norms that limit freedom.

Social Constructs

Acts of oppression often silence those affected, leaving them unable to speak out.

Silent Suffering

 powerless but it has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can cause the typhoon halfway around the world will when enough people come together we too will make waves and watch the world into a new era filled with love and connection freedom for all without oppression but it is up to you yes you watching this

His Epic Message Will...

 Though the name suggested impossibility, modern scientific and political progress raised hopes of these dreams finally becoming reality. But time and time again, they instead turned into nightmares of war, famine, and oppression. And as artists began to question utopian thinking,

How to recognize a...

 I am proud to be on this stage to be able to highlight my identities of being a black woman and of being a designer being a black woman I've had to acknowledge the long-term effects of racial and gender oppression and what it's meant on my life especially the

Designing for a more...

 accepted polarities, polarities we've taken for granted for a long time, like the ones between modernity and tradition, First World and Third World, oppression and opportunity. In the midst of the daunting challenges we face as a global community,

Kavita Ramdas: Radical...

 And this way of thinking allows us to see our differences with respect, instead of fear. And it generates the empathy that we need to overcome all the ways that we try to hurt one another. Stigma, shame, prejudice, discrimination, oppression.

Aspen Baker: A better...

 One of the women was white, and one was black. And the white woman said -- this is going to sound very anachronistic now -- the white woman said, "All women face the same oppression as women. All women are similarly situated in patriarchy,

Why Gender Equality Is...

 Civil War and war in general does not tend to stop at a frontline we can all have truth and reconciliation that's not the end how do you dig out all that hurt all that oppression from the hearts of so many people and so for

Alexandra Fuller: Born...

 I was 17. So these experiences gave me a sharp awareness of the atrocities and injustices in the world. And I had a strong desire -- a very keen, deep desire -- to right wrongs and help the victims of oppression.

Inside the mind of a...

 can turn conflict into peace and threat into hope. And I hope that one day armies can be disbanded and humans will find a way of living together without violence and oppression.

Peter van Uhm: Why I...

 How small our world has become. It's so hard for us to remember how interconnected we all are as human beings. And yet, we know that it is systems of oppression