“We’re in the midst of a reckoning. It’s what toxic masculinity’s own medicine tastes like. And people should allow the consequences to unfold, regardless of how it affects those they consider to be friends. The only way to enforce seismic, cultural change in the way men relate to women is to draw a…”— Amber Tamblyn, nytimes.com
“We haven’t been silent because we forgot or made our stories up. We’ve been silent because we’ve been silenced.”— Amber Tamblyn, nytimes.com
“When trauma becomes a part of your identity, it can be terrifying to consider who you are outside of that. The idea of living a life without dysfunction may even seem impossible. Often, you will engage in self sabotaging behavior simply because the pain is familiar.”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com
“What are we afraid to say and why can’t we say it? Women, particularly the most marginalized, are silenced, while powerful abusers can scream as loudly as they want, lie as much as they want and continue to profit through it all.”— Ellen Page, facebook.com
“"Why isn’t financial literacy taught in schools?" Because the powers that be have a vested interest in you being utterly confused by a financial system where a series of simple mistakes can leave you in debt for the rest of your life.”— korolevx, korolevx.tumblr.com
“A game at which the liberals have become masters is that of deliberate evasiveness. The question often comes up `what can you do?`. If you ask him to do something like stopping to use segregated facilities or dropping out of varsity to work at menial jobs like all blacks or defying and denouncing al…”— Steve Biko, amazon.com
“What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce real black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society. We do not need to apologise for this because it is true that the white systems have produced through the world a number of people who are not aware that they too are peop…”— Steve Biko, amazon.com
“We cannot witness the struggle between the oppressed and his oppressor anywhere without the deepest sympathy for the former and the most anxious desire for his triumph.”— Millard Fillmore, presidency.ucsb.edu
“Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“You must stand up for everyone’s right to be who they are— otherwise you may find one day that it is you who is singled out, who is seen as different, and then there will be no one to defend you.”— Sandi Toksvig, amazon.com
“My disdain for cops is institutional, not individual. Just because you may have a positive personal relationship with someone who is a cop doesn’t change the fact that the law enforcement system in this country is rooted in white supremacy and is used to repress and control the working class while p…”— fromacomrade, fromacomrade.tumblr.com
“I've always felt I've related to women deeply because of being gay and feeling like there was always somebody trying to oppress me, to keep me down, to put me in my place.”— Ryan Murphy, elle.com
“What oppression does is destroy our capacity for empathy because otherwise we would all be up in arms enraged at the fact that there's people out there who are oppressed.”— Gail Dines, youtube.com
“I try not to think too much, like other things now, thought must be rationed.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“Self-hatred is self-imprisonment. Self-forgiveness is self-liberation. You have the right to suppress yourself, oppress yourself and depress yourself. You have the right to impress yourself too. Feel happy.”— Israelmore Ayivor, amazon.com
“In many ways, the so-called war on drugs was a war on communities of color, a war on black communities, a war on latino communities.”— Angela Davis, imdb.com
“That's why when someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible because what it means is that the person who's asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country since the time the first black person was kidna…”— Angela Davis, imdb.com
“The Bureau of Justice reported that one in three young black males is expected to go to jail or prison during his lifetime, which is an unbelievably shocking statistic.”— Bryan Stevenson, imdb.com