True religion always moves us to serve others and to give our lives to see those oppressed find freedom. — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Do not be with the oppressor, help the oppressed and prevent the oppressor from being unfair.” — Kamaran Ihsan Salih Copy Share Image
You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed. — Remi Kanazi 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
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
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
The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am… — Septima Poinsette Clark Copy Share Image
“To them she wore the costume of the oppressed from distant lands and was the poster child of backwardness in a forward… — Umm Zakiyyah Copy Share Image
In the face of the oppressed I recognize my own face, and in the hands of the oppressor I recognize my own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I get a lot from people who are in oppressed situations and say they were gonna give up. A lot of people… — Rain Dove 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
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
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
“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
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard… — George Bernard Shaw 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
God says, "Come out of her my people, that you be not partakers of her sins and her plagues, for her sins… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
Always remember that there is no conversion to God if there is no conversion to the oppressed. — Ignacio Ellacuria Copy Share Image
Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance! — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Party anthems and party things aren't what people need when they're the most oppressed. — Bushwick Bill Copy Share Image
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Superman! Champion of the oppressed. The physical marvel who had sworn to devote his existence to helping those in need. — Jerry Siegel Copy Share Image
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me… — D Dale Gulledge Copy Share Image
Oppression thrives on distance - on not actually meeting or seeing the oppressed. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it’s becoming an oppressor, — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is… — Elizabeth Missing Sewell Copy Share Image
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for. — Orlando Jones Copy Share Image
Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
