A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor. — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
If America oppresses, why do so many people risk their lives coming here to be oppressed? — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I'm going to continue to stand with the people that are being oppressed. — Colin Kaepernick Copy Share Image
If you have a more oppressed Internet, you have a more oppressed society. — Peter Sunde Copy Share Image
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is… — Robert Conquest Copy Share Image
If you don't have a bed, or a dresser or a wall, or a book or a toy you are oppressed. An… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or… — Joseph Hume Copy Share Image
I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
No movement calls [migrant workers] oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning; for providing… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
America overflows with specious "victims" demanding redress for spurious grievances. However, one genuinely oppressed minority is getting overdue relief. Beginning with spring… — George Will Copy Share Image
Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
So what you do [under apartheid system] is you convince black people that the reason they are being oppressed is because there… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with progressive educators, already committed to a 'child-centered' rather than a 'teacher-directed' approach to classroom instruction. Freire's… — Sol Stern Copy Share Image
The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of… — Susan Brownmiller Copy Share Image
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The only thing worse than an oppressed liberal is the Rino Republican who sympathizes with them. — Josh Bernstein Copy Share Image
I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to… — Common Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a fire, warming the hearts of the oppressed. It can spread, or be snuffed out, but only you can decide.” — Zachary Koukol Copy Share Image
The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the… — Martin Delany Copy Share Image
The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation. — Mahmud Tarzi Copy Share Image
No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Poor and afflicted and oppressed people have faces, and we are required to look squarely into them. We can't love what we… — Nancy Mairs Copy Share Image
I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
With a whirl of thought oppressed I sink from reverie to rest. An horrid vision seized my head, I saw the graves… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
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