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Oppressed Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of…
- In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns. To retaliate…
- The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.
- A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.
- We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never…
- The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the…
- Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself..
- They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions…
- There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up....…
- White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and…
- Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
- 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…
- Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever.
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- You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but… — Margaret Atwood
- Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
- In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing,… — Charles Baudelaire
- The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. — Steven Biko
- As I've said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager. — Joe Bob Briggs
- Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to… — George W. Bush
- Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend… — Tony Campolo
- I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America. — Tony Campolo
- I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world.… — Tony Campolo
- To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed. — John Henrik Clarke
- American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a… — William J. Clinton