Oppressor Quotes

113 quotes by 76 authors

The last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor can remove their hands and say, 'My God, what are these… — Aaron Huey
Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or… — Kavita Ramdas
Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into… — Martin Luther
Each and every one of us has the capacity to be an oppressor. I want to encourage each and everyone of us to interrogate how… — Laverne Cox
I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. — Nelson Mandela
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing… — Mahatma Gandhi
The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is… — Audre Lorde
Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. — Elie Wiesel
I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is… — Nelson Mandela
White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others. — Bell Hooks
The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the way,… — J. Christopher Herold
Every time I sit down to eat, I cast my lot: for mercy, against misery; for the oppressed, against the oppressor; and for compassion, against… — Bruce Friedrich
It is the obligation of every person who claims to oppose oppression to resist the oppressor by every means at his or her disposal. Not… — Assata Shakur
In the face of the oppressed I recognize my own face, and in the hands of the oppressor I recognize my own hands. Their flesh… — Henri Nouwen
An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor. — Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Being a victim of oppression in the United States is not enough to make you revolutionary, just as dropping out of your mother's womb is… — Grace Lee Boggs
Anyone who recognizes this regime [Israel] because of the pressure of the World oppressor, or because of naivetÃ© or selfishness, will be eternally disgraced and… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
[Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN] action is nonaction… — Martin Scorsese
The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid… — B.F. Skinner

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