“I hope I take up the cause of all oppressed people rather warmly.” — Wilkie Collins 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
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
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
Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive. — Martin Luther King, Jr 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 women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Like any oppressed people, they defined themselves by what offended them, which” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Palestinians are not victims in need of aid, they are an occupied & oppressed people in need of freedom. — Remi Kanazi Copy Share Image
Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are frequendy very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on… — Florynce Kennedy Copy Share Image
Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is meaningful, the system under which… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
I think as an intelligent person you would agree that when you are teaching among oppressed people that they should be relieved… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We can certainly be on the same side and the same front with the workers and with the oppressed people of Iran.… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
The whole class system has oppressed so many people and given them such lack of opportunity. They are fed such strong narratives… — Zoya Akhtar Copy Share Image
It's worth pointing out that conflicts between racially oppressed people often result from the fact that colonialism worked on divide and rule.… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image
The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are… — Marilyn Frye Copy Share Image
I think during the Cold War in America at least, there was a division; there was the Soviet government and there were… — Joe Weisberg Copy Share Image
Institutions work this way. A son is murdered by the police, and nothing is done. The institutions send the victim's family on… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
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
I will continue - as Labour Leader - to pursue the causes of peace and justice in Israel-Palestine, the wider Middle East… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
“There are many oppressed people across the border, people who are dirt poor and have little chance in life. Then there are… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
There's a lot of oppressed people in Tottenham, but people in Tottenham also know how to turn pain into triumph. — Skepta Copy Share Image
I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America. — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
White women are themselves oppressed and that they would therefore be able to align themselves with other oppressed people. — Kirsten Powers Copy Share Image
I supported the right of oppressed people to armed struggle. That didn't mean I did it. — Susan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. — Meridel Le Sueur 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
Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor… — Florence King Copy Share Image
It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on… — W. Kamau Bell Copy Share Image
Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance! — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
