Oppressed Quotes

382 Oppressed quotes by 257 unique authors

A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he… — Desmond Tutu
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I… — George Bernard Shaw
The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open… — Philip K. Dick
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied… — Richard Wright
Chivalry!---why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection---the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of… — Walter Scott
If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black… — Armistead Maupin
The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the… — Malcolm X
Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly… — Paulo Freire
Libertarian action must recognize this dependence as a weak point and must attempt through reflection and action to transform it into independence. However, not even… — Paulo Freire
I was oppressed with a sense of vague discontent and dissatisfaction with my own life, which was passing so quickly and uninterestingly, and I kept… — Anton Chekhov
Do you know why this world is as bad as it is?... It is because people think only about their own business, and won't trouble… — Anna Sewell
Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch… — Howard Zinn
But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not… — Gustavo GutiÃ©rrez
He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul. — Isabel Allende
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned… — Anthony Trollope
Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the… — Patrick O'Brian
And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express — Wilhelm Reich
When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given -… — Dean Koontz
As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with… — Tom Robbins

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