Oppressors Quotes · Page 2

The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

But for the use of physical punishment by, and fear of their oppressors, animals would never be a part of a circus.

— Richard Pryor

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

— Bobby Seale

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.

— Paulo Freire

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

— Marek Edelman

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

— Nelson Mandela

But nonviolence was never for the oppressor; it was for the oppressed.

— Nikki Giovanni

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

— Paulo Freire

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

Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female…

— Camille Paglia

My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself. The oppressors are no longer…

— Hajo Meyer

[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

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

— Phil Cousineau

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 true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the…

— Audre Lorde

God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends…

— William Ralph Inge

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

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

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

It is said that this is a man's world, and sometimes, it is. For every casket girl that was saved, countless others…

— Rebecca

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

— Malcolm X

[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

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 fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle…

— Kwame Nkrumah

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

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

And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the…

— Ezra Taft Benson

All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars…

— Toni Morrison

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to…

— Paulo Freire

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

— Paulo Freire

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

— Ameen Rihani

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

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

— Desmond Tutu

“To stop oppression, you will first end the tyranny of the oppressors.”

— Steven Chuks Nwakokeke

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

— Jose Rizal

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

— Devdutt Pattanaik

Compassion for victims is sometimes forgotten in a misapplied concern for their oppressors and murderers.

— Max Anders

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