Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed” — Steve Biko Copy Share Image
And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” — Stephen Bantu Biko Copy Share Image
The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
“Fear not the might of the oppressor, but rather, complacency in the hearts of the oppressed.” — Isiah Strong Copy Share Image
We're oppressed, I think, you know there's only 5 per cent of the world's population who are ginger? So it's a tough… — Sean Dyche Copy Share Image
Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
This pedagogy makes oppression and its causes objects of reflection by the oppressed, and from that reflection will come their necessary engagement… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
In order to create an alternative an oppressed group must at once shatter the self-reflecting world which encircles it and, at the… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soul-less conditions. It is… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
I know books that are really good and writers that are really good and they have become oppressed and ground down from… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
Everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Jon Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are… — Rick Sanchez Copy Share Image
Real Jews, in concord with some Muslims, continue their war against Zionists and against Israeli crimes. The oppressed people of Palestine living… — Maurice Motamed 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
One of our people in the Native community said the difference between white people and Indians is that Indian people know they… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Called to the throne of my fathers, I have taken over the government, looking to the King of all kings, and have… — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
“Can you see the pictures before you on how to intervene on behalf of the oppressed? Are you thinking of what to… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Children learn about the nature of the world from their family. They learn about power and about justice, about peace and about… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
It is said that this is a man's world, and sometimes, it is. For every casket girl that was saved, countless others… — Rebecca Copy Share Image
“Oppression Olympics is what smart liberal Americans say to make you feel stupid and to make you shut up. But there IS… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed. — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy. — Ignatius of Loyola Copy Share Image
Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.” — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Jerusalem the Golden, With milk and honey blest, eneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed. — John Mason Neale Copy Share Image
Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people. — Charles Lenox Remond Copy Share Image
These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries. — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
“The oppressed do not see too much difference between those who would keep them down and those who do nothing to help.… — Christine Caine Copy Share Image
If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
