“I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed.” — Lewis Tappan Copy Share Image
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members. — Silvia Tennenbaum Copy Share Image
“The oppressed, who lives without wisdom will never be liberated.” — Henry Johnson Jr Copy Share Image
Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor. — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. — Simon Wiesenthal Copy Share Image
The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.” — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book for the Nelson Mandela's of our communities who are willing to stand up for change and people who… — Sahndra Fon Dufe Copy Share Image
He who becomes a Prince through the favour of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Regardless of what the law or your teachers have to say about this, you are as human as anyone over the age… — Grace Llewellyn Copy Share Image
Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of… — Isaac Bonewits Copy Share Image
I don't think Dr. King helped racial harmony, I think he helped racial justice. What I profess to do is help the… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I wish to see the sons and daughters of the world in Peace and busily employed in the more agreeable amusement of… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against,… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions,… — Polybius Copy Share Image
Acknowledging the realities of structural and institutional racism is hard for conscionable white people. It might ask them to consider how they're… — Emily Raboteau Copy Share Image
The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity,… — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
When women understand that governments and religions are human inventions; that Bibles, prayer-books, catechisms, and encyclical letters are all emanations from the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They are the typical product of the structure of the German Lager: if one offers a position of privilege to a few… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once. We shall not know what to join… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“The fact that certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation, thus moving from one pole… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Underlying the attack on psychotherapy, I believe, is a recognition of the potential power of any relationship of witnessing. The consulting room… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
