Freedom Quote by Barbara Deming

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

— Paulo Freire

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

— Paulo Freire

Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged…

— Arianna Huffington

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

— Bill Keller

The process of liberation brings with it a profound conflict. Having the project be clear is not enough. What is necessary is a spirituality…

— Leonardo Boff

... within every form of oppression lies the seeds of liberation.

— Susie Orbach

“The oppressed, having internalised the image of the oppressor and adopted his guideline are fearful of freedom. Freedom would require them to eject this…

— Paulo Freire

It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for the freedom…

— Nelson Mandela

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

— Rick Bayan

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

— Paulo Freire

Liberation that raises a cry against others is no true liberation. Liberation that means revolutions of hate and violence and takes away lives of…

— Oscar Romero