The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate. — Eric Hoffer 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 oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation. — Mahmud Tarzi Copy Share Image
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. — Kim Il-sung Copy Share Image
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Religion is against women's rights and women's freedom. In all societies women are oppressed by all religions. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
The struggle against war and its social source, capitalism, presupposes direct, active, unequivocal support to the oppressed colonial peoples in their struggles… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
There'll be no more big powers and oppressed poor - only fairness and justice for all, and eternal happiness. So if you're… — David Berg Copy Share Image
No movement calls [migrant workers] oppressed for providing money for women from whom they are receiving neither cooking nor cleaning; for providing… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Yes, as an oppressed people, American Indians have this epic burden, but first and foremost, they're human: sometimes a mess, sometimes funny… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“For poor people, this required identifying with the oppressed, and counting yourself among them—which was something most trailer park residents were absolutely… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Pedagogy of the Oppressed resonated with progressive educators, already committed to a 'child-centered' rather than a 'teacher-directed' approach to classroom instruction. Freire's… — Sol Stern Copy Share Image
So what you do [under apartheid system] is you convince black people that the reason they are being oppressed is because there… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of… — Susan Brownmiller Copy Share Image
It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
In what region of the earth ever so remote from us, in what corner of creation ever so far out of the… — Robert Charles Winthrop Copy Share Image
Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive. — 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
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
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
God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
“Oppressed peoples are always being asked to stretch a little more, to bridge the gap between blindness and humanity.” — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“Politics don’t begin in Washington. Politics begin with those who are oppressed right here.” — Gloria Steinem 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
“The greatest weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” — Steve Biko Copy Share Image
Justice, particularly for the oppressed and marginalized in our society, never comes without great effort and sacrifice. — Shaun King Copy Share Image
The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a fire, warming the hearts of the oppressed. It can spread, or be snuffed out, but only you can decide.” — Zachary Koukol 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
The 21st century is oppressed by a crushing sense of finitude and exhaustion. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
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