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
No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Let us have an education, that shall practically develop our thinking faculties and manhood; and then, and only then, shall we be… — Martin Delany Copy Share Image
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say… — Thomas A. Edison 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
You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor;… — Khalil Gibran 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
Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I knew Deng Xiaoping when he came out of prison. He had, after all, been imprisoned for nearly ten years by Mao.… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I believe scripture is not just resilient but rebellious against its abuse by people. Scripture says it refuses to be used in… — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Muslims, scholars or not, are on the side of the oppressed and never on the side of the oppressors. Some scholars claim… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of… — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
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 oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors." "They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Who but shall learn that freedom is the prize Man still is bound to rescue or maintain; That nature's God commands the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed?… — Mark Twain 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
Liberals in blue states just think that when they look in the mirror and say to themselves "I'm for the environment, I'm… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
It would be hard to find a single example in history in which a group that cast more than 50 percent of… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
No civilization can exist part free and part slave. ..We have never had any other kind of civilization. It has always been… — Walter Russell 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
People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Every time I sit down to eat, I cast my lot: for mercy, against misery; for the oppressed, against the oppressor; and… — Bruce Friedrich Copy Share Image
It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain… — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors,… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Unjust social orders do not fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it’s becoming an oppressor, — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
“There is no one but ourselves to blame for our problems: neither God nor any oppressors.” — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
