“As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Come see the violence inherit in the system!! Help Help I'm being oppressed!!” — Monty Python and the Holy Grail Copy Share Image
When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
As long as the family and the myth of the family ... have not been destroyed, women will still be oppressed. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
In North Korea, people who are actually oppressed don't even know they're oppressed. — Park Yeon-mi 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 wrote this book for the Nelson Mandela's of our communities who are willing to stand up for change and people who… — Sahndra Fon Dufe Copy Share Image
Ironically, when I've asked my straight friends to join me in hanging a rainbow flag, they answer, 'But someone might think we're… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on… — W. Kamau Bell 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
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
“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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents, and then later on in… — Dalai Lama 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
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
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
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
Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blessed, beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed. — John Mason Neale 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
An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible. — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
It's not my job to produce results. But it is my job to lay my hands on the sick, the oppressed, and… — Todd Bentley Copy Share Image
It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors. — Paulo Freire 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
We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people. — Charles Lenox Remond Copy Share Image
“1. God hears the cry of the oppressed. He even hears the cries of those whose oppression is a result of sin… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
“This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries. — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
