“The oppressed do not see too much difference between those who would keep them down and those who do nothing to help.… — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
And clenching your fist for the ones like us Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
O, though oft oppressed and lonely, All my fears are laid aside, If I but remember only Such as these have lived… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.” — George Orwell 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
There were many Americans in the Revolutionary era who believed that they, like the children of Israel, were oppressed by their colonial… — Daniel L Dreisbach Copy Share Image
We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in… — William Blake Copy Share Image
The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If… — Craig Murray 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
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Solidarity is learned through 'contact' rather than 'concepts.' Students in the course of their formation, must let the gritty reality of this… — Peter Hans Kolvenbach Copy Share Image
No race has the last word on culture and on civilization. You do not know what the black man is capable of;… — Marcus Garvey Copy Share Image
“Even in the face of powerful structures of domination, it remains possible for each of us, especially those of us who are… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Utopians don't say, 'The world's corrupt, women make less money, people of color are oppressed at every turn.' You don't list the… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
“And what is wrong with you that you fight not in the Cause of Allaah, and for those weak, ill-treated and oppressed… — Muhammad Muhsin Khan Copy Share Image
If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy. — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Jerusalem the Golden, With milk and honey blest, eneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed. — John Mason Neale Copy Share Image
“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.” — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“You do not realize the value of homeland until you are oppressed and forced to leave.” — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
“Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
Women are the only oppressed group in our society that lives in intimate association with their opressors. — Evelyn Cunningham Copy Share Image
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
When things go wrong just say.. I'm not impressed!! When you're not impressed you won't be oppressed or depressed!! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” — Stephen Bantu Biko Copy Share Image
