A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We need a broad commitment to human rights across the board. We cannot attain that simply by protecting one oppressed group or… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with. — Michael K. Williams Copy Share Image
Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us… — Laura Schlessinger Copy Share Image
Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed — Rose Kennedy Copy Share Image
Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed. — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“And those who flee for Allah's sake after they are oppressed, We shall certainly give them a good abode in the world;… — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
There are 2,000 verses of Scripture that tell us we must be committed to protecting the poor and the oppressed... There is… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run… — Shulamith Firestone Copy Share Image
[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am… — Septima Poinsette Clark Copy Share Image
Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Because Ajamu Baraka speaks in the language of his community, and makes no bones about it, he really invites in a whole… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“To me, the ideological high wire is for fools to balance on with their illusions. It is better to leap into the… — Ai Copy Share Image
The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
In 'The Hunger Games,' in most people's idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situation, that would meet the criteria for… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
This oppressor/oppressed cultural Marxist thing is you're an authentic woman and an authentic black even only if you support liberal causes. If… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
I think that's the struggle of our normality is that we have oppressed desires because of what is accepted and not accepted… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“If the oppressed must be alert enough to follow the rulers' instructions, they are therefore conscious enough to be able to challenge… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“However oppressed by my own or others' anguish, I am not to forget that there is more in the world than this,… — Kallistos Ware Copy Share Image
“Individuals with greed for power see others as elements to be oppressed.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic. — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
“The LORD is q a stronghold for r the oppressed, a stronghold in s times of trouble.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group. — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence. — Georg Ebers Copy Share Image
This [service to oppressed] is the writer's task, and, if he fulfills it as he should, he acquires no merit from it. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves... — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
We will no longer be oppressed by the fascism called Christianity. We will no longer be oppressed by the mentality of the… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood. — Deborah Turbeville Copy Share Image
![“[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 the apparatus of oppression.” quote by Shulamith Firestone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d7b/shulamith-firestone-12980_accomplished_u-nless-oppressed-groups-stick-together_5485.jpg)
![“[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment.” quote by George Washington](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/28c/george-washington-257_commandments_let-the-poor-the-needy-and-oppressed-of_231971.jpg)
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