“I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.” WantGivingHumansI CanWishPoorRightsUniversityHuman RightsGenderInequalityOppressedLecturesBattlefieldsShowcaseGender Inequality Author:Taslima Nasrin
“The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.” PeopleJusticeRightsOppressedOppressors Author:Martin Delany
“the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.” Would BeLawRightsProtectEqualMajorityCivil RightsOppressionMinoritiesOppressedEqual RightsFreedom LibertyPrice Of FreedomUnalienable RightsMajority RuleTyranny Of The MajorityPolitical OppressionMajority And MinorityMinority Government Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Solidarity is learned through 'contact' rather than 'concepts.' Students in the course of their formation, must let the gritty reality of this world into their lives, so they can learn to feel it, think about it critically, respond to its suffering and engage it constructively. They should learn to perceive, think, judge, choose and act for the rights of others, especially the disadvantaged and the oppressed.” ThinkingWorldFeelsShouldRealitySufferingCoursesRightsThis WorldStudentsJudgingConceptsContactPerceiveSolidarityOppressedFormationDisadvantaged Author:Peter Hans Kolvenbach
“Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.” PeopleLongEnjoyJusticeRightsCitizensHatredJewCivil RightsOppressedOverdue Author:Franz Grillparzer
“I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes. I oppose both movements when either says our sex is THE oppressed sex, therefore, "we deserve rights." That's not gender liberation but gender entitlement. Ultimately, I am in favor of neither a women's movement nor a men's movement but a gender transition movement.” MenOpportunitySexResponsibilityRightsFeminismMovementEqualDeserveFeministGenderFavorsDefinedLiberationTransitionOppressedEntitlementEqual Opportunity Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex
“When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available.” PeopleHumansChangeLinesAnswersEnvironmentRightsViolenceImpossibleDemocraticHuman RightsAvailableTerroristViolentPeacefulPropagandaDeniedOppressedExploitsDissentExtremismRipe Author:Barack Obama
“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.” PeopleLawJusticePoorIssuesRightsOppressedUnjustWoePreyWidowsDecreeRobbingUnjust LawsFatherless Author:Isaiah
“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.” MindWould BeLawPoliticalPoliticsFreedomLibertyPrinciplesCasesRightsBearsProtectEqualSacredMajorityEqualityCivil RightsOppressionReasonableMinoritiesPatrioticOppressedEqual RightsFreedom LibertyPrice Of FreedomUnalienable RightsMajority RuleTyranny Of The MajorityEqual ProtectionPolitical OppressionMajority And MinorityMinority Government Author:Thomas Jefferson