God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“The oppressed are sometimes the most rabid of oppressors" (119).” — Elizabeth Nunez Copy Share Image
Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor. — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed. — Ali Meshkini Copy Share Image
Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. — James Madison Copy Share Image
For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this… — Frei Betto Copy Share Image
We're coming with a mighty force to end the reign of your oppressors. We are coming to bring you food and medicine… — George W. Bush 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
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
We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and… — Gloria Steinem 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
Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and everyone of us… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Child! Turn your face to the light, to the science, to the reason, to the truth, to the peace! Child! Be modern,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors…… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, shew how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor.… — William Bradford Copy Share Image
Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts. — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the… — Martin Delany Copy Share Image
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
“The oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it.” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority. — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
A Lesbian who consents to guilt for her sexual preference is her own worst oppressor. She accepts and internalizes prejudices and uses… — Sidney Abbott Copy Share Image
The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
