Oppressors Quotes

To forgive an oppressor is oppression upon the oppressed.

— Umar

Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

— Adrienne Rich

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

— Elie Wiesel

The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.'

— Paulo Freire

Our parents are our first oppressors.

— Jerry Rubin

To pardon the oppressor is to deal harshly with the oppressed.

— Saadi

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

— Jane Elliott

Tremble, all ye oppressors of the world!

— Richard Price

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

To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

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

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

— Elie Wiesel

The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor.

— Paulo Freire

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

— Eric Hoffer

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

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

— Elie Wiesel

For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this…

— Frei Betto

Anyone who recognizes this regime [Israel] because of the pressure of the World oppressor, or because of naiveté or selfishness, will be…

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor…

— Florence King

Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them';

— Paulo Freire

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

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a…

— Bertrand Russell

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

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

Racism oppresses its victims, but also binds the oppressors, who sear their consciences with more and more lies until they become prisoners…

— Alveda King

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

Genocide has two phases: one, destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; the other, the imposition of the national pattern…

— Raphael Lemkin

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

— Frederick Douglass

Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, shew how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor.…

— William Bradford

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

Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you,…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If the innocent honest Man must quietly quit all he has for Peace sake, to him who will lay violent hands upon…

— John Locke

It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for…

— Nelson Mandela

The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland.…

— James Connolly

Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to…

— Thomas Jefferson

This oppressor/oppressed cultural Marxist thing is you're an authentic woman and an authentic black even only if you support liberal causes. If…

— Andrew Breitbart

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A people who free themselves from foreign domination will be free culturally only if, without complexes and without underestimating the importance of…

— Amilcar Cabral

“I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on…

— Charles Dickens

The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be,…

— Errico Malatesta