The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them'; — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
We never pay anyone Dane-geld, No matter how trifling the cost; For the end of that game is oppression and shame, And… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that.… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
For many Washington liberals, terrorism was not the instrument of political fanatics and evil men, but was the product of social conditions… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
For a shaman, all things considered taboo get ripped apart, and one feels the satisfaction of being freed from agony through vituperation… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of "us" and "them" creates a false… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
“Whenever we use our religion, as individuals, or as groups within the church, to act in tandem with political and economic groups… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
“Feminist consciousness is consciousness of victimization. To apprehend one-self as victim is to be aware of an alien and hostile force outside… — Sandra Bartky Lee Copy Share Image
Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The nature of women's oppression is unique: women are oppressed as women, regardless of class or race; some women have access to… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
That's how oppression works. Thousands of otherwise decent people are persuaded to go along with an unfair system because changing it seems… — Laurie Penny Copy Share Image
“What writer Audre Lorde says to black men and women is true for all of us: "If we do not define ourselves,… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a… — Leszek Kolakowski 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
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
There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“But for a society buit on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
When you're accustomed to privilege, parity and equity and equality may feel like oppression. — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds. — Tatyana Tolstaya Copy Share Image
I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
We must use words to uplift and include. We can use our words to fight back against oppression and hate. But we… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
“As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.” — Toni Cade Bambara Copy Share Image
To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
What we once thought of as necessary and proper reasons for ostracizing and marginalizing gay people, we now understand do not justify… — Donald Verrilli Jr Copy Share Image
“Sex, like color, is a meaningless criterion and an oppression criterion when it is made a condition for a job,” — Lynn Povich Copy Share Image
