The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt. — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Tout re volutionnaire finit en oppresseur ou en he re tique. Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor. — Rick Bayan 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
In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to… — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be,… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors — Nelson Mandela 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 Lesbian who consents to guilt for her sexual preference is her own worst oppressor. She accepts and internalizes prejudices and uses… — Sidney Abbott Copy Share Image
Like an explorer returned from a distant planet or another dimension, Suki Kim has many extraordinary tales to tell, among them how… — Carlos Eire Copy Share Image
Alike to the slave and his oppressor cometh night with sweet refreshment, and half of the life of the most wretched is… — Martin Farquhar Tupper 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
The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold. — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani Copy Share Image
May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is said that this is a man's world, and sometimes, it is. For every casket girl that was saved, countless others… — Rebecca Copy Share Image
To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
