Oppressed Quotes

382 Oppressed quotes by 257 unique authors

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed. — Mahatma Gandhi
When everybody in the world loves one another, then the weak will not be overpowered by the strong, the few will not be oppressed by… — Motsi Mabuse
What does Christianity mean today? National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting… — Joseph Goebbels
Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in society… — Shelby Steele
The mark of the modern world is the imagination of its profiteers and the counter-assertiveness of the oppressed. Exploitation and the refusal to accept exploitation… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves… — Jonathan Mayhew
I have made some enemies. My enemies in the southern states consisted of those who oppressed the black slave. My enemies in the north are… — Albert Parsons
Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to… — Patricia Hill Collins
The experience of oppressed people is that the living of oneâ€™s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or… — Marilyn Frye
The Irish Republic must be made a word to conjure with - a rallying point for the disaffected, a haven for the oppressed, a point… — James Connolly
I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy. — Mahatma Gandhi
Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed. — Wally Lamb
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors. — Paulo Freire
Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from… — Paulo Freire
Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them'; — Paulo Freire
The oppressed find in the oppressors their model of 'manhood.' — Paulo Freire
The behavior of the oppressed is a prescribed behavior, following as it does the guidelines of the oppressor. — Paulo Freire
This book will present some aspects of what the writer has termed the pedagogy of the oppressed, a pedagogy which must be forged with, not… — Paulo Freire
It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total responsibility… — Paulo Freire
The behavior and reactions of the oppressed, which lead the oppressor to practice cultural invasion, should evoke from the revolutionary a different theory of action.… — Paulo Freire

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