Oppressors Quotes · Page 5

“There is no one but ourselves to blame for our problems: neither God nor any oppressors.”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

— Desmond Tutu

I go where there are no slaves, hangmen or oppressors; where faith does not kill; where the one who reigns is God.

— Jose Rizal

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

— Bell Hooks

Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We shall never secure emancipation from the tyranny of the white oppressor until we have achieved it in our own souls.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of…

— Nelson Mandela

Oppressors do not get to be oppressors in a single sweep. They manage it because little by little, we make them that.…

— Joan D. Chittister

The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport,…

— Samuel Johnson

The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own…

— Bobby Seale

Atonement is a journey of healing that moves from the pain between a victim and an oppressor, through forgiveness, the making of…

— Phil Cousineau

We have to stop arresting prostitutes and not arresting traffickers and pimps. It's absurd. We're arresting the victim or the survivor and…

— Gloria Steinem

We're coming with a mighty force to end the reign of your oppressors. We are coming to bring you food and medicine…

— George W. Bush

The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes,…

— Mark Twain

There must be a very clear understanding that you cannot work for peace if you are not ready to struggle. And this…

— Tariq Ramadan

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.…

— Bertrand Russell

The oppressors do not perceive their monopoly on having more as a privilege which dehumanizes others and themselves. They cannot see that,…

— Paulo Freire

[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN]…

— Martin Scorsese

The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It…

— Malcolm X

We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator.…

— Malcolm X

The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors……

— Frederick Douglass

To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.

— Marek Edelman

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

— Paulo Freire

Certain members of the oppressor class join the oppressed in their struggle for liberation.

— Paulo Freire

I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.

— Nelson Mandela

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

— Elie Wiesel

“The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“A leader is a thorn in the flesh of oppressive people. They never feel comfortable when a leader stands up.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

To sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppressor.

— Jane Elliott

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

— Paulo Freire

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

— James Madison

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

— Paulo Freire

The method of nonviolence seeks not to humiliate and not to defeat the oppressor, but it seeks to win his friendship and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and everyone of us…

— Laverne Cox

Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind…

— Andrew Vachss

“The oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it.”

— Paulo Freire

Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.

— William Lloyd Garrison