“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.” — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“A leader is a thorn in the flesh of oppressive people. They never feel comfortable when a leader stands up.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold. — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani Copy Share Image
An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor. — Lerone Bennett, Jr 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
In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for,… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
Silence is consent. And silence where life and liberty is at stake, where by a timely protest we could stay the destoyer's… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and… — Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Copy Share Image
But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment - to love God first - nor is it clear that I… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
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 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
hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no… — Charlotte Forten Grimke Copy Share Image
Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, I have always supported the human being in his humanism and I have supported the oppressed. I think it… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
It's almost impossible to separate the actions, or it's also, it's almost impossible to separate the oppression and exploitation, criminal oppression and… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There must be a very clear understanding that you cannot work for peace if you are not ready to struggle. And this… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
What we consider is that the Venezuelan government is not a leftist government, has nothing of a leftist government. It is an… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly.… — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“For the oppressors..to 'be' is to have and to be the class of the "haves".” — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“As I'd seen over and again, people who see themselves as victims sometimes don't notice when they become oppressors.” — Souad Mekhennet 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
The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors. — Jerry Rubin 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
