Oppressed Quotes

382 Oppressed quotes by 257 unique authors

Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like… — Evo Morales
Never elated when someone's oppressed, never dejected when another one's blessed. — Alexander Pope
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. — Maximilien Robespierre
A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people… — Barbara Smith
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist. — Patti Smith
The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. — Kim Il-sung
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty… — Pancho Villa
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless… — Simone Weil
Humour is the weapon of unarmed people: it helps people who are oppressed to smile at the situation that pains them. — Simon Wiesenthal
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked… — Carter G. Woodson
What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved?… — Nawal El Saadawi
A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their… — Lorraine Hansberry
It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change… — Jane Austen
[T]he more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform… — Paulo Freire
I learned from Hussain how to be wronged and be a winner, I learnt from Hussain how to attain victory while being oppressed. — Mahatma Gandhi
The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves... — Paulo Freire
I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Being oppressed means the absence of choices — Bell Hooks

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