The oppressed, as objects, as "things", have no purposes…

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

[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

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

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

— Mahmud Tarzi

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

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

— Malcolm X

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

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

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

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

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

There'll be no more big powers and oppressed poor - only fairness and justice for all, and eternal happiness. So if you're looking for…

— David Berg

I guess that is the strange part of the human brain that people have studied for eons - is hatred and self-hatred. You can…

— Trevor Noah

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

— Julien Green

“When I was born I was not a child I was a dream, A dream of revolt That my mother , Oppressed for thousands…

— Sahil Parmar