« All Oppressed Quotes · Nelson Mandela's Page
Oppressed Quotes by Nelson Mandela
- It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for the freedom of…
- A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it.
- The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We…
- It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations…
- I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.
- Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed,…
- Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors
- I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is…
- Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others.
- A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no…
More Oppressed Quotes
- The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?' — Margaret Atwood
- 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