Learning Quote by Audre Lorde

“When men oppress their fellowmen, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves. For they will justify all means of self-preservation, including the persecution and…

— H. N. Ellessy

“Do not be with the oppressor, help the oppressed and prevent the oppressor from being unfair.”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors." "They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who has knowledge…

— Paulo Freire

“The oppressors, whose tranquility rests on how well people fit the world the oppressors have created, and how little they question it.”

— Paulo Freire

“This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well.”

— Paulo Freire

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.

— Paulo Freire

“If we consider our own reasoning to be absolutely right and the center of our focus is upon ourselves, we will feel oppressed by…

— Russell M. Stendal

“We must side with the oppressed on every occasion, even when they are in the wrong, though without losing sight of the fact that…

— Emil M. Cioran

“The oppressed, as objects, as "things", have no purposes except those their oppressors prescribe for them.”

— Paulo Freire

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

— Paulo Freire