Only when the oppressed are heard can we have an honest solutions based dialogue. — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom. — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Do not be with the oppressor, help the oppressed and prevent the oppressor from being unfair.” — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
“Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed. — Remi Kanazi Copy Share Image
If the Democrats have their way, African Americans will continue to feel oppressed, despised and handicapped into the indefinite future. All progress… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity… — John Woolman Copy Share Image
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
In order for the oppressed to be able to wage the struggle for their liberation, they must perceive the reality of oppression… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am… — Jupiter Hammon Copy Share Image
The eternal destiny of human beings will be measured by how much or how little solidarity we have displayed with the hungry,… — Leonardo Boff Copy Share Image
The right of revolution is an inherent one. When people are oppressed by their government, it is a natural right they enjoy… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If that means going onto their farms, releasing their animals and burning the place to the ground, that's morally justifiable, in our… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
“So too, since Christ has in principle defeated the fallen "gods" (principalities and powers) who have for ages inspired injustice, cruelty and… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make a criminal look like he's the victim and make the… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Party anthems and party things aren't what people need when they're the most oppressed. — Bushwick Bill Copy Share Image
Superman! Champion of the oppressed. The physical marvel who had sworn to devote his existence to helping those in need. — Jerry Siegel Copy Share Image
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me… — D Dale Gulledge Copy Share Image
Always remember that there is no conversion to God if there is no conversion to the oppressed. — Ignacio Ellacuria Copy Share Image
Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance! — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In North Korea, people who are actually oppressed don't even know they're oppressed. — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blessed, beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed. — John Mason Neale Copy Share Image
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors. — Marek Edelman Copy Share Image
I supported the right of oppressed people to armed struggle. That didn't mean I did it. — Susan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
