Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of… — Charles Lenox Remond Copy Share Image
The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself. The oppressors are no longer… — Hajo Meyer Copy Share Image
Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Atonement is a journey of healing that moves from the pain between a victim and an oppressor, through forgiveness, the making of… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
Anyone who recognizes this regime [Israel] because of the pressure of the World oppressor, or because of naiveté or selfishness, will be… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
It is said that this is a man's world, and sometimes, it is. For every casket girl that was saved, countless others… — Rebecca Copy Share Image
The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to… — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN]… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of… — Susan Brownmiller Copy Share Image
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors — Nelson Mandela 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
“As I'd seen over and again, people who see themselves as victims sometimes don't notice when they become oppressors.” — Souad Mekhennet Copy Share Image
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education. — Paulo Freire 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
Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor. — Saadi Copy Share Image
“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.” — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold. — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani Copy Share Image
“A leader is a thorn in the flesh of oppressive people. They never feel comfortable when a leader stands up.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor. — Lerone Bennett, Jr 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
![“[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate the people... someone wise who could direct the actions of an unbridled and floating multitude.” quote by Jean-Paul Marat](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cf9/jean-paul-marat-33448_action_we-need-someone-bold-to-put-himself-at-t_1223177.jpg)
![“Anyone who recognizes this regime [Israel] because of the pressure of the World oppressor, or because of naiveté or selfishness, will be eternally disgraced and will burn in the fury of the Islamic nations.” quote by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a19/mahmoud-ahmadinejad-3130_fury_anyone-who-recognizes-this-regime-israel_423654.jpg)
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