The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is…

Solidarity is learned through 'contact' rather than 'concepts.' Students in the course of their formation, must let the gritty reality of this world into…

— Peter Hans Kolvenbach

The eternal destiny of human beings will be measured by how much or how little solidarity we have displayed with the hungry, the thirsty,…

— Leonardo Boff

We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed.

— Remi Kanazi

“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let…

— Kamand Kojouri

“Equality of condition and equality of opportunity must provide the foundation of an interdependent nation with building blocks found in dignity and respect given…

— Julie Banks Lewis

For us, the idea was not to get involved more than necessary in the fight against the Russians, which was the business of the…

— Osama bin Laden

In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the same time,…

— Sheila Rowbotham

The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have…

— Robert Briffault

The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows…

— Andrea Dworkin

Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in…

— Tim Wise

I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what…

— Marwan Barghouti

The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to…

— Sheila Rowbotham

Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

— Malcolm X

Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we won't experience.

— Nancy Mairs

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle…

— Shulamith Firestone