Oppressors Quotes

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Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble. — William Lloyd Garrison
The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle… — Malcolm X
I belonged to a small minority of boys who were lacking in physical strength and athletic prowess. ... We found our refuge in science. ...… — Freeman Dyson
But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who… — Thomas Jefferson
Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the… — Thomas Jefferson
Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold. — Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani
For me, men are not divided into believers and atheists, but between oppressors and oppressed, between those who want to keep this unjust society and… — Frei Betto
We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed. — Remi Kanazi
All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for… — George W. Bush
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art.… — Edith Wharton
May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose Providential agency… — George Washington
Bullies, oppressors and all men who do violence to the rights of others are guilty not only of their own crimes, but also of the… — Alessandro Manzoni
And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the… — Ezra Taft Benson
The basic function of the government everywhere in all times, whatever title it adopts and whatever its origin and organisation may be, is always that… — Errico Malatesta
The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish question… — James Connolly
The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors. — 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
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education. — Paulo Freire
The oppressors develop a series of methods precluding any presentation of the world as a problem and showing it rather as a fixed entity, as… — Paulo Freire

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