Forgiveness is commendable, but apply not ointment to the wound of an oppressor. — Saadi Copy Share Image
If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
“The oppressed are sometimes the most rabid of oppressors" (119).” — Elizabeth Nunez Copy Share Image
Violence just hurts those who are already hurt...Instead of exposing the brutality of the oppressor, it justifies it. — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The grave unites; where e'en the great find rest, And blended lie th' oppressor and th' oppressed! — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor. — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
You should make the world understand that Israel is the oppressor and that Israel must be destroyed. — Ali Meshkini Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor… — Florence King Copy Share Image
For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this… — Frei Betto Copy Share Image
People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today,… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern… — Raphael Lemkin Copy Share Image
Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had him out of… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God,… — Aaron Huey Copy Share Image
...Jews must learn to say without excuse, without equivocation: despite our history and our powerlessness in the past, despite allthe injustices that… — Irena Klepfisz Copy Share Image
I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge… — Freeman Dyson 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
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
Every rabbit-nation will find its tyrant! Oppressors are the destiny of coward and submissive nations! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
The oppressors do not favor promoting the community as a whole, but rather selected leaders. — Paulo Freire 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
The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Come, all ye lovers of liberty, break the oppressor's rod, loose the iron grasp of mobocracy, and bring to condign punishment all… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority. — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
“We must side with the oppressed on every occasion, even when they are in the wrong, though without losing sight of the… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way… — 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
Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor,… — Marianne Moore 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
