But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing. — Desmond Tutu 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
“Politics don’t begin in Washington. Politics begin with those who are oppressed right here.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive. — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me. — Mahalia Jackson Copy Share Image
As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound skepticism that… — Barbara Smith Copy Share Image
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
North Koreans are tragically oppressed. Despite the risks to my personal safety, I feel a strong obligation to tell the world about… — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
I have made some enemies. My enemies in the southern states consisted of those who oppressed the black slave. My enemies in… — Albert Parsons Copy Share Image
Our work in Britain suggests that radicalization is driven by an ideology which claims that Muslims around the world are being oppressed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Praise the Lord, my soul, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. The… — David 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
As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no… — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
Liberals in blue states just think that when they look in the mirror and say to themselves "I'm for the environment, I'm… — Andrew Breitbart 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
We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely lower grade, say, in their ignorance,that he acted "on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There's a few scholars that object to how the italicized sections suggest that Native people are to take some part in the… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
No civilization can exist part free and part slave. ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for… — Nelson Mandela 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
“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
During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once. We shall not know what to join… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“I learned from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed” — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
A society is only as free as its most oppressed and afflicted members. — Silvia Tennenbaum Copy Share Image
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