Oppressor Quotes

113 quotes by 77 authors

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long… — James A. Baldwin
The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. — Steven Biko
The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. — Albert Camus
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. — Emile M. Cioran
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life. — Anne Lamott
The non-violent technique does not depend for its success on the goodwill of the oppressor, but rather on the unfailing assistance of God. — Cesar Chavez
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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… — Nelson Mandela
If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast. — John Greenleaf Whittier
We have a common enemy. We have this in common: We have a common oppressor, a common exploiter, and a common discriminator. But once we… — Malcolm X
Freedom has nothing to do with having the right to vote for your oppressor; freedom is not having any form of oppression. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a beloved community. A… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars but the pop… — Toni Morrison
Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and… — Bobby Sands
It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem.… — Malcolm X
People who have been wronged will attempt to right the wrong; they would not be people if they didn't. They can rarely afford to be… — James A. Baldwin
Be persecuted, rather than be a persecutor. Be crucified, rather than be a crucifier. Be treated unjustly, rather than treat anyone unjustly. Be oppressed, rather… — Isaac of Nineveh
[We need] someone bold, to put himself at the head of the disaffected and rally them against the oppressor. Some great character who could captivate… — Jean-Paul Marat

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