My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am… — Septima Poinsette Clark Copy Share Image
Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soul-less conditions. It is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Individual initiative alone and the mere free play of competition could never assure successful development. One must avoid the risk of increasing… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food. So I wanted to create a sitcom and… — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
“Oppression Olympics is what smart liberal Americans say to make you feel stupid and to make you shut up. But there IS… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our… — George Washington Copy Share Image
To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples… — James H. Cone Copy Share Image
In the face of the oppressed I recognize my own face, and in the hands of the oppressor I recognize my own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole… Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive… — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I get a lot from people who are in oppressed situations and say they were gonna give up. A lot of people… — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed?… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I do not imply that in the U.S plants, industrial plants, are places of exploitation where man is oppressed. 1 know that… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“Moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand and struggle side by side… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I guess that is the strange part of the human brain that people have studied for eons - is hatred and self-hatred.… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
The worries that are the burden of which the privileged person makes an excuse in dealing with the oppressed person are in… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Yet, feeling his way, starting by the passive opposition of small thefts, stealing sausage ends and crusts of bread when Signora Squeers… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to… — Imran Khan Copy Share Image
We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“We must side with the oppressed on every occasion, even when they are in the wrong, though without losing sight of the… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
If all else fails, we will simply have to drug our attendants, overpower the guards, raise the oppressed peasants to arms, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost… — John McCain Copy Share Image
When the sage stands above people, they are not oppressed. When he leads people, they are not obstructed. The world will exalt… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all… — George Washington Copy Share Image
![“[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment.” quote by George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/28c/george-washington-257_commandments_let-the-poor-the-needy-and-oppressed-of_231971.jpg)
![“[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole… Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed.” quote by I. L. Peretz](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fc2/i-l-peretz-22812_egotism_about-jews-sheer-egotism-compels-us-to-t_141834.jpg)
![“I affect no contempt for the high eminence he [Senator Stephen Douglas] has reached. So reached, that the oppressed of my species,might have shared with me in the elevation, I would rather stand on that eminence, than wear the richest crown that ever pressed a monarch's brow.” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0d1/abraham-lincoln-88_ambition_i-affect-no-contempt-for-the-high-eminen_2296058.png)
