Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

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

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed and delivering justice to the violent they are making America more secure.

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

Women are oppressed in the east in the west in the south in the north. Women are oppressed inside outside home a woman is oppressed in religion she is oppressed outside religion.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.

The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.