Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“To stop oppression, you will first end the tyranny of the oppressors.” — Steven Chuks Nwakokeke Copy Share Image
I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God. — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
“There is no one but ourselves to blame for our problems: neither God nor any oppressors.” — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
Compassion for victims is sometimes forgotten in a misapplied concern for their oppressors and murderers. — Max Anders 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
White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you… — Georg Buchner 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
Masters are those who have chosen only love. In every instance. In every moment. In every circumstance. Even as they were being… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Black people are the only ones told to love our oppressors. I hate that. We've been loving our oppressors for a long… — Charlamagne tha God Copy Share Image
All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When… — George W. Bush 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
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, I have always supported the human being in his humanism and I have supported the oppressed. I think it… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
It's almost impossible to separate the actions, or it's also, it's almost impossible to separate the oppression and exploitation, criminal oppression and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There must be a very clear understanding that you cannot work for peace if you are not ready to struggle. And this… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be,… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be truly balanced in one's views of an abuser and an abused woman. As Dr. Judith Herman… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls. — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus. — Richard Pryor Copy Share Image
To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors. — Marek Edelman Copy Share Image
The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own… — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image
It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. — Nelson Mandela 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
