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Masters are those who have chosen only love. In every instance. In every moment. In every circumstance. Even as they were being killed, they loved… — Neale Donald Walsch
Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes… — Andrew Vachss
Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts. — Jean-Paul Marat
In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented… — Henry Highland Garnet
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph. Whereas the former-the… — Joseph Campbell
I was much more afraid in Montgomery when I had a gun in my house. When I decided that I couldn’t keep a gun, I… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it),… — Paulo Freire
No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are… — Peter Benchley
Our task is not to liberate the oppressed, but to liberate the oppressors — Nelson Mandela
Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy,… — Mark Twain
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
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries… — Bertrand Russell
Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle. — Jonathan Mayhew
The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
God wants to set the oppressed free from being oppressed and the oppressors free from oppressing. — Desmond Tutu
Liberals tend to be much more concerned about business and corporations as the oppressors. They look to government as the solution. On the Right it's… — Jonathan Haidt
There isn't a religion on earth that isn't damaging to the human race because every one of them is patriarchal and every one eliminates more… — Susan Powter
But I was not obeying the first and greatest commandment - to love God first - nor is it clear that I was obeying the… — Sheldon Vanauken
Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost; we shall yet see the oppressors' yoke broken and the fragments scattered… — Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into… — William Ralph Inge
Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen,… — Albert Einstein
Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could… — William Butler Yeats
The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors. — Martin Delany
Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the… — Mark Twain
The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate. — Eric Hoffer

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