“ One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle… Carl Sagan
“ Never give up. Things may be hard, but if you quit trying they'll never get better. Stop worrying and start trusting God. It will be worth it. Germany Kent
“ Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I failed at first to see) had been… Christopher Hitchens
“ All religions, in their pure form, will tell you God is Love. And power, fear, division, judgment, oppression, hatred and self-righteousness are the opposite of Love. So going to war, for example, in… The Truth
“ Like most people who decide to get sober, I was brought to Alcoholics Anonymous. While AA certainly works for others, its core propositions felt irreconcilable with my own experiences. I couldn't, for… Noah Levine
“ It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of g… Murray N. Rothbard
“ Joy is meant to be felt; its not meant to be detained. It is meant to be shared with others; not to be felt alone. When all the mouths smile out their teeth together, thats when the greatest happiness… Israelmore Ayivor
“ Don't be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars. Michael Bassey Johnson
“ Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person. Madeleine L'Engle
“ [Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost forty years of our li… Leon Trotsky
“ In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came to the practicalities of life, a ruthless pragmatism often came… Alison Weir
“ From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart of liberty. In 1789 the Federalists adopted Alien and Sedition Acts… John F. Kennedy
“ Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against. DaShanne Stokes
“ White ain't nothing.'Mama's grip did not lessen. 'It is something, Cassie. White is something just like black is something. Everybody born on this Earth is something, and nobody, no matter what color… Mildred D. Taylor
“ When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility. Auliq Ice
“ In the heart of appeasement there's the fear of rejection, and in acts of fear there are mirrors of oppression. Criss Jami
“ Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism. Jorge Ramos
“ Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither… Frederick Douglass
“ Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed. DaShanne Stokes