It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus. — Richard Pryor Copy Share Image
But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed. — Elie Wiesel 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
Black people are the only ones told to love our oppressors. I hate that. We've been loving our oppressors for a long… — Charlamagne tha God Copy Share Image
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you… — Georg Buchner 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
Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself. The oppressors are no longer… — Hajo Meyer Copy Share Image
Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By… — Alan Moore 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
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
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
Ignorant, unconscious and dishonourable part of a society want and like kings, dictators, padishahs and all sort of despots; educated, conscious and… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Child! Turn your face to the light, to the science, to the reason, to the truth, to the peace! Child! Be modern,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to… — Paulo Freire 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
Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
It is not possible to be truly balanced in one's views of an abuser and an abused woman. As Dr. Judith Herman… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of… — Charles Lenox Remond 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 behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor. — Paulo Freire 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
In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“As I'd seen over and again, people who see themselves as victims sometimes don't notice when they become oppressors.” — Souad Mekhennet Copy Share Image
“For the oppressors..to 'be' is to have and to be the class of the "haves".” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education. — Paulo Freire 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
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