Oppressor Quotes
113 quotes by 77 authors
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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
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The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
— Steven Biko
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The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.
— Albert Camus
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Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
— Anne Lamott
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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[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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