Claims Quote by Assata Shakur

“The highest form of resistance is to enjoy life, even in the face of oppression. If you can find a way to live a…

— Morgan Rice

To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression…

— Chinua Achebe

Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility.

— Anonymous

It is better to resist oppression by violent means than to submit, but it is best of all to resist by nonviolent means.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

— Seneca the Younger

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

— Assata Shakur

“Unfortunately, oppression does not automatically produce only meaningful struggle. It has the ability to call into being a wide range of responses between partial…

— Chinua Achebe

“Yet it is—paradoxical though it may seem—precisely in the response of the oppressed to the violence of their oppressors that a gesture of love…

— Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

— Andrew Solomon

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.

— Paulo Freire