Oppressed Quotes · Page 7

Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

— William Butler Yeats

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

— Jordan Peterson

Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them.

— Simon Wiesenthal

“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed.”

— George Orwell

[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks.

— Edward Gibbon

Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.

— Ogden Nash

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America.

— Tony Campolo

“The oppressed, as objects, as "things", have no purposes except those their oppressors prescribe for them.”

— Paulo Freire

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole… Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive…

— I. L. Peretz

[Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our…

— George Washington

To sing about freedom and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history by oppressed peoples…

— James H. Cone

The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief…

— Evgeny Morozov

Despotism often presents itself as the repairer of all the ills suffered, the support of just rights, defender of the oppressed, and…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle…

— Leon Trotsky

Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in…

— Jonathan Mayhew

I want my children - I want Malia and Sasha - to understand that they've got responsibilities beyond just what they themselves…

— Barack Obama

Critical and liberating dialogue, which presupposes action, must be carried on with the oppressed at whatever the stage of their struggle for…

— Paulo Freire

Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those…

— Cesar Chavez

The character of the tribunes was, in every respect, different from that of the consuls. The appearance of the former was modest…

— Edward Gibbon

“The churches failed to realize that the working-class movement was the movement of the humiliated and oppressed supplicating for justice. They did…

— Milan Kundera

The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Democracy is not just freedom to criticize the government or head of state, or to hold parliamentary elections. True democracy obtains only…

— Nawal El Saadawi

The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of…

— Grover Cleveland

The oppressed, having internalized the image of the oppressor and adopted his guidelines, are fearful of freedom.

— Paulo Freire

“The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.”

— Bertolt Brecht

Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.

— Julien Green

Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of…

— Isaiah

Those who call for censorship in the name of the oppressed ought to recognize it is never the oppressed who determine the…

— Aryeh Neier

The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

— George Bernard Shaw

President Obama's actions are an unconscionable betrayal of America's fundamental values and a profound insult to the oppressed Cuban people.

— Mario Diaz-Balart

New Labour has created a society increasingly oppressed by the worry of personal debt.

— John McDonnell

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

— Margaret Atwood

Trying to help an oppressed person is like trying to put your arm around somebody with a sunburn.

— Florynce Kennedy

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

— Paulo Freire

“The oppressed grows weightless: doze/n th/rough c/and/or man/aged leg/ions stud/ents”

— A.R. Ammons

No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.

— Clarence Darrow

To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life.

— Edwin Markham

To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.

— Frank Herbert