Oppression Quotes

608 quotes by 408 authors

Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are… — Paulo Freire
To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a… — Paulo Freire
Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build… — Paulo Freire
The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on… — Dorothy Allison
When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw. — Nelson Mandela
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting. — Vladimir Nabokov
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of… — Horace Greeley
It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and… — Wallace Stegner
Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God. — Thomas Jefferson
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. — Simone de Beauvoir
Crush humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seeds of… — Charles Dickens
A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their… — Thomas Jefferson
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws… — H. L. Mencken
...oppression is as American as apple pie... — Audre Lorde
Because European countries now resolve differences through negotiation and consensus, there's sometimes an assumption that the entire world functions in the same way. But let… — George W. Bush
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
The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The… — George Orwell
It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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