And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed” — Steve Biko Copy Share Image
“What else must we do and say? What else must the oppressed do for a taste of freedom?” — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
We're oppressed, I think, you know there's only 5 per cent of the world's population who are ginger? So it's a tough… — Sean Dyche Copy Share Image
“Like any oppressed people, they defined themselves by what offended them, which” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Fear not the might of the oppressor, but rather, complacency in the hearts of the oppressed.” — Isiah Strong Copy Share Image
Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world.… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
Money is not the root of all evil...ignorance is the root of all evil. People do cruel and foolish things for money… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
“Our devotion should center on the cause of the oppressed, the tyrannized, the humiliated and hurt masses that have no place at… — Henry Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
I know that in South Africa, we were in that space, and we're still suffering from that space. And that was where… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
When everybody in the world loves one another, then the weak will not be overpowered by the strong, the few will not… — Motsi Mabuse Copy Share Image
Dare I speak ,to oppressed and opressor in the same voice? Dare I speak to you in a language that will move… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Justice is only achieved in beautiful fullness when the oppressed has been elevated back to their rightful place, and when those who… — Benjamin L. Corey Copy Share Image
Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern… — Raphael Lemkin Copy Share Image
Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“For the oppressors..to 'be' is to have and to be the class of the "haves".” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in whi ch we live is not the exception but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Palestinians are not victims in need of aid, they are an occupied & oppressed people in need of freedom. — Remi Kanazi Copy Share Image
All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we had… — Horace Copy Share Image
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think great comedy comes from the oppressed. It comes from feeling like you've gotten punched up in a way. — Jessica Williams Copy Share Image
Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence. — Georg Ebers Copy Share Image
I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood. — Deborah Turbeville Copy Share Image