This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if…

“If something must be said, it will say itself. The writer's task is to listen.”

— Dalia Sofer

“A writer's task is to interpret his world as he sees it, if not to make it understood, at least to make it understandable.”

— Leonard Walker

A word can be transformed into a coulour, light, a smell; it is the writer's task to use it in such a way that…

— Knut Hamsun

Part of the writer's task is to recognize what he's done, then dive back in and make the connections clearer. I'm a strong believer…

— David Lubar

I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw,…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity…

— Michael Mandelbaum

We Muslims believe that the white race, which is guilty of having oppressed and exploited and enslaved our people here in America, should and…

— Malcolm X

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

The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of…

— Paulo Freire

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

The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation.

— Mahmud Tarzi

There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[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

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

— Mahatma Gandhi