But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed. — Carolina Maria de Jesus Copy Share Image
The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“The LORD is q a stronghold for r the oppressed, a stronghold in s times of trouble.” — Anonymous 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
The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor. — Paulo Freire 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
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them'; — Paulo Freire 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
For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor. — Walter Rodney Copy Share Image
The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
What should move us to action is human dignity: the inalienable dignity of the oppressed, but also the dignity of each of… — Dominique de Menil Copy Share Image
The subtlest and most vicious aspect of women's oppression is that we have been conditioned to believe we are not oppressed, blinded… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in Eastern Europe to the stabilization… — Kay Bailey Hutchison Copy Share Image
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of the oppressed,'… — William Wells Brown Copy Share Image
It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted,… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
I find it really unique that the black community, who has been oppressed and is still oppressed, can find a way to… — Trevante Rhodes Copy Share Image
Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern… — Raphael Lemkin Copy Share Image
Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Women have a hard time of it in this world. They are oppressed by man-made laws, man-made social customs, masculine egoism, the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When everybody in the world loves one another, then the weak will not be overpowered by the strong, the few will not… — Motsi Mabuse Copy Share Image
Increasingly, politics is not about "who gets what, when, how" but about values, each of them considered to be absolute. Politics is… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Whenever the need for some pretense of communication arises, those who profit from our oppression call upon us to share our knowledge… — Audre Lorde 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
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
“The fact is that men encounter more complicity in their woman companions than the oppressor usually finds in the oppressed; and in… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Marxism in this country had even been an eccentric and quixotic passion. One oppressed class after another had seemed finally to miss… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
More than my questions about the efficacy of social actions were my questions about my own motives. Do i want social justice… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
We must bear in mind that imperialism is a world system, the last stage of capitalism-and it must be defeated in a… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
