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I esteem myself a good, persistent hater of injustice and oppression, but my resentment ceases when they cease, and I have no heart to visit upon children the sins of their fathers.
— Frederick Douglass
Added to the natural good qualities of Mr. Covey, he was a professor of religion—a pious soul—a member and a class-leader in the Methodist church. All of this added weight to his reputation as a nigger-breaker.
— Frederick Douglass
Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Totalitarians are fond of saying that Christianity is the enemy of the State—a euphemistic way of saying an enemy of themselves.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.
— Alice Walker
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
— Booker T. Washington
You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
— Brene Brown
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.
— Jordan Peterson
The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
— Soren Kierkegaard
These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.
— Malcolm X
Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back--and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!
— Malcolm X
It seems that some women love to be exploited. when they are not exploited, they exploit the man.
— Malcolm X