Oppressed Quotes

The ignorance of the oppressed is strength for the oppressor.

— Anonymous

I don't know why people like being oppressed.

— Candace Owens

“We who are oppressed love those who fight against oppression.”

— Louis Farrakhan Muhammad Sr

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.”

— Wilkie Collins

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

— Thomas Huxley

An oppressed people will always rise.

— Henning Mankell

“I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed.”

— Lewis Tappan

The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it’s becoming an oppressor,

— Jon Stewart

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others.

— Eric Hoffer

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is…

— Elizabeth Missing Sewell

We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed.

— Tariq Ramadan

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation?

— Paulo Freire

Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for.

— Orlando Jones

Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed.

— Robert J. Shiller

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

— Edward Gibbon

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from…

— George Ripley

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood…

— Malcolm X

Why is the sea king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them... If the sage would guide the people, he…

— Laozi

Regardless of what the law or your teachers have to say about this, you are as human as anyone over the age…

— Grace Llewellyn

Look at the people who are kind of the funniest cultures, they're the cultures of the people who have been the most…

— Sarah Silverman

Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly.…

— Isaac of Nineveh

China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter…

— Chiang Kai-shek

“Oppression is built on a series of assumptions, and if they begin to crumble, the system is in grave danger. The assumptions…

— Pearl Cleage

I think that for those of us who come from oppressed backgrounds and who do our work in marginalized communities, recovering our…

— Van Jones

Satan...[plans] to destroy liberty and freedom ~ economic, political, and religious, and to set up in place thereof the greatest, most widespread,…

— Heber J. Grant

Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood; inquire…

— Howard Stern

When one realizes God, He grants knowledge and illumination from within; one knows it oneself. In the fullness of one's spiritual realization…

— Sarada Devi

Acknowledging the realities of structural and institutional racism is hard for conscionable white people. It might ask them to consider how they're…

— Emily Raboteau

The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity,…

— Robert Briffault

I don't think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice. What I profess to do is help the…

— Al Sharpton

Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in…

— Dalai Lama

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most…

— Anonymous

“Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge…

— Audre Lorde

“They are the typical product of the structure of the German Lager: if one offers a position of privilege to a few…

— Primo Levi

“How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured…

— Robert Walser

“Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once. We shall not know what to join…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“You don't have to die to self and acknowledge Jesus as Lord of your life when you regard Him simply a desperate…

— Criss Jami

As the American Muslim community gets a little bit freer in terms of not being under the thumb of that kind of…

— Glenn Greenwald

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly…

— Martin Luther King, Jr