It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power - power to oppress others. The… — Eric Hoffer 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 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 Copy Share Image
By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority. — Gene Sharp Copy Share Image
The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
Come, all ye lovers of liberty, break the oppressor's rod, loose the iron grasp of mobocracy, and bring to condign punishment all… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
A Lesbian who consents to guilt for her sexual preference is her own worst oppressor. She accepts and internalizes prejudices and uses… — Sidney Abbott Copy Share Image
“The truth about oppressors is that they are also as fearful as their victims if not suffering continuous panic attacks about losing… — Peter Mutanda Copy Share Image
When someone hurts you or harms you, even if it is a deep wound, forgive them. Forgive them NOT for their sake,… — Suhaib Webb Copy Share Image
It happens every millennium. Now more than ever, man threatens to destroy himself with his own technology, and all the ideas contained… — Marilyn Manson 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 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
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
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
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
Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“We must side with the oppressed on every occasion, even when they are in the wrong, though without losing sight of the… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and everyone of us… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He who, when he hath the power, doeth not good, when he loses the means will suffer distress. There is not a… — Saadi Copy Share Image
If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
“The oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it.” — Paulo Freire 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
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 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
Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his… — Martin Luther 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
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
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
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
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
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life… — Anne Lamott 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
