When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power - power to oppress others. The… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, & the soul of soulless conditions. It is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and… — S. Ansky Copy Share Image
Listen, here's reality. It is completely unfair and absolutely necessary that people who have been oppressed and marginalized have to lead everybody.… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
“And I — my head oppressed by horror — said: "Master, what is it that I hear? Who are those people so… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution of the United States there is on the earth. In my feelings I am… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
I believe that there will be ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing. I believe that… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never – since the objective is not to close a cycle,… — Augusto Boal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You don't pick black actors or black directors because they are black. You pick them because they are good. If you lend… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A society concerned with shalom will care for the most marginalized among them. God has a special concern for the poor and… — Randy S. Woodley Copy Share Image
Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues,… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Oxfam is part of a global movement for social justice. We mainly work to fight for economic and social rights for people… — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause… — Ghassan Kanafani Copy Share Image
Age after age, the strong have trampled upon the weak; the crafty and heartless have ensnared and enslaved the simple and innocent,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The dictator is also the scapegoat; in assuming absolute authority, he assumes absolute guilt; and the oppressed masses, groaning under the yoke,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Oppressed persons, oppressed cultures, tend to be more political, obviously, as are those with a rage for justice, or the crazy messianic… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know… — Pancho Villa Copy Share Image
Our late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with his universal sympathy for all oppressed and his profound understanding of Jesus' revolutionary spirit of… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
There was a thrust to raise the consciousness of the people and we argued that in order to free ourselves we must… — Maulana Karenga Copy Share Image
My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for… — Angela Rye Copy Share Image
How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with… — Robert Dale Owen Copy Share Image
“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
North Koreans are tragically oppressed. Despite the risks to my personal safety, I feel a strong obligation to tell the world about… — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
