I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
“Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, s yet he opened not his mouth; t like a u lamb that is led to the slaughter,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for,… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
I wish to see the sons and daughters of the world in Peace and busily employed in the more agreeable amusement of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of… — Isaac Bonewits Copy Share Image
You have to start looking in the mirror and saying, 'this is who I am, this is what I am and this… — Charlamagne Tha God Copy Share Image
Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles,… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions,… — Polybius Copy Share Image
To feel oppressed by obligation is only to prove that we are incapable of a proper sentiment of gratitude. To receive favors… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“To defend the oppressed against their oppressors, to plead the cause of the weak against the strong who exploit and crush them,… — Maximilien de Robespierre Copy Share Image
“The fact that certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation, thus moving from one pole… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Yes, Marcos is gay. Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“The Master doesn't try to be powerful; thus he is truly powerful. The ordinary man keeps reaching for power; thus he never… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
“Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationship of witnessing. The consulting room… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
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